Re: Blood and Iron
Karl Wagner is a disgruntled middle-aged instructor at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College. He finds himself concerned about the direction which the German nation is headed in—just as he is killed by a terrorist attack. Only to awaken and find himself reborn as an infant, Bruno von Zehntner, the youngest son of a noble family renowned for its part in the German war industry a few years after the founding of the German Empire. Bruno, as he is now known, desires to rewrite history and ensure the German Empire emerges victorious in the coming century. And in doing so, finds himself entrenched in a world filled with Blood and Iron!
The Great War Begins
To say that the world was on the verge of being lit aflame after the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife was no exaggeration. In Bruno's previous life, the Habsburg Dynasty sent a list of demands to the Kingdom of Serbia, including the matter of an international investigation into the murder of their heir apparent.
There was a common misconception that Serbia had agreed to all of these demands except for one, which was the one that would give up their sovereignty as a nation, choosing instead to fight to remain an independent kingdom.
The reality was that the ultimatum, which "put Serbian sovereignty into question," was the demand that Austria be allowed to conduct a bilateral and international investigation into the assassination of their heir.