Erik Sass

Erik Sass

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Erik Sass is the author of The Mental Floss History of the United States and co-author with Steve Wiegand of The Mental Floss History of the World, both of which you should go buy right now. When he’s not writing about historical curiosities for mental_floss, he covers online and traditional media for MediaPost. His interests include water gardens, games of strategy, geography, and cats.

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World War I Centennial: Conrad Urges War Against Serbia

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World War I Centennial: Serbia and Greece Ally Against Bulgaria

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World War I Centennial: Montenegro Backs Down, Greeks and Bulgarians Clash

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World War I Centennial: Germany Promises to Respect Belgian Neutrality, Austria-Hungary Mobilizes Against Montenegro

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World War I Centennial: Montenegro Takes Scutari, Austria-Hungary Threatens War

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World War I Centennial: Ceasefire in the Balkans, French War Council Approves Plan XVII

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World War I Centennial: German Chancellor Warns of Impending Racial Struggle

Installment #63: The new military spending bill presented to the German Reichstag on March 1, 1913, arrived in a climate of growing fear. In a speech urging the Reichstag to vote for the bill on April 7, 1913, German Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg (pictured) warned that Austria-Hungary – Germany’s only real ally – faced an existential threat from the rise of Slavic power in the Balkans in the First Balkan War, and predicted a “life and death struggle” between “Germanism” and “Slavism.”... READ ON

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World War I Centennial: The Fall of Adrianople

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World War I Centennial: King George I of Greece Assassinated

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World War I Centennial: Austria-Hungary and Russia Stand Down

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