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Assignment C - Poetry after 1900 The First World War was triggered by the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo on the 28th of June 1914. The Austrian Government accused Serbia of involvement in the murder and declared war. Germany joined in, declaring war first on Russia, the champion of all Slavs, and later on France Russia's ally. The German army acting on a war plan, created years before the assassination took place, invaded Belgium as the shortest route to France, and England joined the war bound by a treaty with Belgium. So the battle lines were drawn up: the Allies (Britain, France, Russia, Serbia and later Japan) against the Central Powers (Germany , Austria-Hungary, Turkey and later Bulgaria). What ensued was the horror of trench warfare in which eventually 8.5 million men were killed, vast numbers of others were wounded, blinded, gassed and...

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