1914: The Year the World Ended by Paul Ham

Author:Paul Ham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Australia Pty Ltd
Published: 2013-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

By provoking Russian mobilisation, Bethmann-Hollweg and Jagow – who now thought war inevitable – would be able to say ‘Russia started it’. They set about trying to engineer that outcome, to ‘bounce’ Russia into ordering full mobilisation. Yet Russia well knew that mobilising its vast armies would be more complex and time-consuming than for any other European nation, which is why it felt compelled to start sooner. In any case, German ‘restraint’ had no claim on virtue: Berlin was poised to mobilise within moments of Russia’s announcement.

The key events leading to Russia’s full mobilisation are intricate and interwoven. By placing them in a simple timeline, we can see why a ‘local’ war between Austria and Serbia spread into a European war, and how mobilisation was the crucial lubricant.

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