The vain hero František Rasch

I believe that humanity has never experienced a greater collective shock in its history than the start of the First World War.
After all, when was the last time Europe faced a real war? It had been almost fifty years since Bismarck's Prussia attacked Austria and then France. In 1914, it was just the subject of senile grandfathers' stories, which no one listened to anyway. Since those times, the great powers have militarily engaged in…