The Seminal Catastrophe Podcast

11. Ultimatum

Dylan Kornberg Season 2 Episode 3

Boy, I sure do hope Austria-Hungary doesn't use the murder of their prince and princess to do something ridiculously aggressive and provocative.

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Neiberg, Michael. Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2011.

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Berchtold, Count Leopold von. Austria’s Challenge Justified by Serbian Menace. From Current History, July 1928. http://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/PDFs/Germany%20Incite%20Austria.pdf

Paléologue, Maurice. An Ambassador’s Memoirs. http://www.alexanderpalace.org/mpmemoirs/1.html

Primary Documents - Austrian Ministerial Council Meeting Minutes, 7 July 1914. https://www.firstworldwar.com/source/austriancouncilmeeting.htm

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