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Ring of Steel Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I

Alexander Watson

A prize-winning, magisterial history of World War I from the perspective of the defeated Central Powers

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

He called it a fascinating 2017 book that tells the story of Germany and AustriaHungary in World WarI.

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And the other one, which is fascinating and it's a 2017 book by Alexander Watson called Ring of Steel, Germany and AustriaHungary in World War I.

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He called it a fascinating 2017 book that tells the story of Germany and AustriaHungary in World WarI.

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And the other one, which is fascinating and it's a 2017 book by Alexander Watson called Ring of Steel, Germany and AustriaHungary in World War I.

The Rest Is History

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The Rest Is History

The hosts noted that Watson's study examined Germany and AustriaHungary's strategic weaknesses in the First World War and argued that German atrocity stories were largely borrowed from Congo newspaper reports.

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Now, there's a brilliant book on Germany and Austria in the central powers in the first war called Ring of Steel by a British historian, Alexander Watson. As he points out, this is, quote, a breathtak...

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The hosts noted that Watson's study examined Germany and AustriaHungary's strategic weaknesses in the First World War and argued that German atrocity stories were largely borrowed from Congo newspaper reports.

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Now, there's a brilliant book on Germany and Austria in the central powers in the first war called Ring of Steel by a British historian, Alexander Watson. As he points out, this is, quote, a breathtakingly audacious and foolhardy aspiration because the French are not nothing.

Stories, as Alexander Watson points out in his book, Ring of Steel, these stories are directly inspired by newspaper reports about what was going on in the Congo.

If you look at Alexander Watson's book, he quotes a lot of people who talk about carrying out these reprisals.

Alexander Watson in his book makes precise this point.

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The podcast mentioned Alexander Watson's Ring of Steel as a brilliant work covering Germany and Austria's role in the First World War, using it to illustrate the mood in Germany at the time.

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that's the mood in germany in austria and alexander watson's brilliant but ring of steel which is about germany austria first world war

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