Posted on 02/23/2020 2:36:53 PM PST by NRx
A world gone by. Colorized film from the last years of the Austro-Hungarian Imperial Court showing Franz Joseph, Archduke (later Emperor) Karl and the Archduchess Xenia, and I think I saw the ill-fated Franz Ferdinand in there as well. Background music is the old imperial anthem Gott Erhalte Franz den Kaiser.
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Read Dreadnaught when it came out. Still somewhere in the basement. Will have to dig it out. On a WW2 kick right now. Reading John McManus’ Fire and Fortitude; The Army in the Pacific.grear chapters on the defense of the Philippines and the Death March. And describes the New Guinea campaign. All I can say is New Guinea was the worst.
The run up to, WWI, and the aftermath are my passion and have been for many decades.
Thank you!
Guns of August is excellent, as you say. Just came back to this thread, and had not copied a comment i made earlier about a dramatized history series “Fall of Eagles”— some 13 episodes-— covering Hapsburgs from 1848 through WWI, Bismarck and his influence on Franz Joseph (Prussia attacking Austria,and uniting a German state) as well as his removal by Kaiser Wilhelm (upon ascending the throne after his father’s death from throat cancer).
The segments on Russia cover rather well the machinations that created WWI (from their own foreign minister and the Austro Hungary diplomat Aerenthal, who annexed Bosnia, and the Serbs were plenty ticked about that.
It’s a great series- described by episode on wikipedia. Much to be learned about how our current demonrats are operating exactly like Bolshies did (all the hitlery obama “resistance” crap spewed,etc.)
Probably the best example out of history of what happens whn technology outstrips the political/societal structures ability to manage it.
We are in a similar period now. Our current Political/Media/Business class is barely coping with the pace of change.
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