![]() World War I was also characterized by trench warfare, in which soldiers on either side lived for months on end in wet, rat- and disease-infested trenches dug into the ground, suffering thousands of lost lives to gain or lose just a few feet of ground. ![]() Survival was not a matter of skill but of luck. These young men become enthusiastic soldiers. The war was the first "mechanized war," and the killing machines (machine guns, mortars, etc.) made the war unbelievably brutal and impersonal, shattering for many the idea of war as something heroic, a face-to-face battle between courageous warriors. This is the testament of Paul Bumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army of World War I. ![]() Soon, France and Britain had joined the Russian side, and the catastrophic war began. Austro-Hungary blamed Serbia for the assassination, and declared war on Serbia in July of 1914, an act that drew Serbia’s ally Russia and Austro-Hungary’s ally Germany into the war. ![]() While the causes of the war were complex and are still debated by historians today, the spark that ignited the conflict was the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo in June of 1914. All Quiet on the Western Front Audible Audiobook Unabridged Erich Maria Remarque (Author), Frank Muller (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) & 0 more 4.7 4. World War I, which began in the summer of 1914 and ended in November of 1918, was fought by many countries but mainly involved Germany and the Austro-Hungarian empire fighting against France, Britain, Russia, and eventually America. ![]()
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