What Did Bismarck Predict?
What Did Bismarck Predict? Before World War I, Germany’s Otto Von Bismarck had predicted the next war would be ignited by “some damned foolish thing in the Balkans,” as Barbara Tuchman noted in her best-seller, “The Guns of August.” On June 28, 1914, the assassination of Austrian heir apparent Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife