The Great War began as a confrontation between Austria and Russia. As we have seen, it quickly developed into much more. But for the Austrians, the main dispute is still against Serbia, and against Russia for supporting her. The Austrians began this confrontation as an effort to prove Austria was still a Great Power. Ironically, 1914 would prove exactly the opposite.
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Fanfare
Opening War Theme
“Entrance of the Gladiators”
Composed in 1897 by Julius Fučík. Public domain.
Performed by the Eastern Wind Symphony, and used pursuant to a Creative Commons CC BY-NC 3.0 License. Source.
Closing War Theme
Except when otherwise indicated, the contents of this podcast are © and ℗ 2016, 2017 by Mark Painter, all rights reserved. Some music and sound effects used by arrangement with Pond 5.
Episode 90 download links to Episode 89? Is it just me?
The link points to previous episode, it should be https://secure-hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/7/7/d/77d213fc9fe70ae8/090_I_Will_See_It_Through.mp3
My bad. The links are now fixed. I must have been terribly distracted by the imminent release of a new Star Trek series.
The old link is still in the RSS feed — even after I remove it from the reader and import again.
I’m guessing wordpress didn’t update the feed contents after the edit?
Great episode Mark!