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Who Really Started WWI? The Shocking Truth Behind July 1914
Most of us learned that Germany was solely responsible for starting World War I. But historian Sean McMeekin’s book 'July 1914: Countdown to War' shatters that myth. Using secret archives from across Europe, he reveals a far more complex and unsettling story. It wasn’t a single villain, but a cascade of blunders, lies, and rigid military plans that doomed the continent. Discover how Austria-Hungary’s internal fights, Russia’s secret early mobilization, France’s political theater, and Germany’s catastrophic miscalculations all fed into the chaos. Watch to see how a few weeks of diplomatic failure and military arrogance turned a local crisis into a world war.
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