August 1914: Surprise or Countdown? February 14, 2012
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary![August 1914: Surprise or Countdown?](http://www.strangehistory.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/French-heavy-cavalry-150x150.jpg)
In western memory, particularly in European memory the guns of August 1914 were a long awaited horror: and while the First World War was so much worse than anyone could have possibly imagined – Beach thinks of an earlier Churchill post on the nineteenth century comparing itself with the twentieth – everyone knew it was […]