Here’s a great video that summarizes WWI from Ferdinand’s assassination all the way to the end.
Franz Ferdinand in Bosnia
Here are some pictures from Getty Images of a 100 year anniversary remembrance of WWI in Sarajevo.
Hellidon Windows
On page 4 Butcher describes a stained glass window memorial at St. John the Baptist in Hellidon. I emailed that church and they kindly responded with pictures!
Blackadder Explains World War I
Since Tim Butcher mentioned Blackadder I suppose I have no choice but to post a clip from Blackadder, one of the greatest comedies set in different periods of history. You might know two of the actors: Hugh Laurie and Rowan Atkinson.
The Soldier
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam;
A body of England’s, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
Next Book: The Trigger
Our next book is The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin that Brought the World to War by Tim Butcher. As always, if you want to join the discussion you can pick up a copy at our Circulation Desk. The discussion will be on October 30th.
True Story Book Club 