• BenVimes@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Same with me and WW1. There are so many more factors to the start of that conflict than the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.

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        3 months ago

        The really quick, really accessible version is the Extra Credits videos, though understand that they simplified a lot of things, and made some mistakes (which they admit to in a follow-up video).

        The Great War YouTube channel also covers some of the same ground in an accessible but more rigorous manner, though I don’t remember them going over all the “clash of empires” background stuff.

        On the far other end, I liked the book The War That Ended Peace by Margaret MacMillan. It’s a dense tome, but it’s chock full of details.