Otto Von Bismarck, the 19th century Prussian statesman, is reputed to have said that the next great European war would probably result from “some damn foolish thing in the Balkans.” His off-hand ...

When confronted by the eternal problems of the Balkan peoples, Otto von Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor of pre-World War I Germany, wisely stated that the whole of the Balkans “was not worth the bones ...

One day the great European war will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans. – Otto von Bismarck, 1888 On July 4, 1914, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrian throne, and ...

"SOME damned foolish thing in the Balkans.” Such was Otto von Bismarck’s prediction in 1888 as to the event that would one day trigger a European war. What the Iron Chancellor of Germany could never ...

Otto von Bismarck’s two hundredth birthday on April 1 has produced a wave of enthusiasm in Germany. The stream of articles, interviews and meetings go far beyond merely paying tribute to a man who ...