Barbara Tuchman’s book IS the book on the first months of the war.
Her description of Joffre sitting on the swings deciding what to do is extremely moving and powerful.
The archduke was more lenient in his beliefs toward Serbia than the rest of the empire’s leaders.
Ten million plus died in the Russian Civil Wars that resulted from WW1. The Poles at Warsaw in 1920 stopped the Bolsheviks from infesting Germany with Bolshevism.