Bit of a slog, a necessary one probably but I liked a lot of this. I liked most the sections studying Serbia and Austria-Hungary, and how European relations were in the years decades leading up to 1914 - it seemed like every year or three there would be some incident that set off everyone but somehow war was avoided until 1914. I also liked the depiction of the Sarajevo assassin plot and the very final section leading up to the mobilisations and declarations of war.