Not just the Western Front: "Ring of Fire" rediscovers WWI’s global story

Not just the Western Front: "Ring of Fire" rediscovers WWI’s global story

“Now Europe is a ring of fire,” the Russian poet Zinaida Gippius wrote in 1914, not long after her country declared war on Austria-Hungary. Soon afterward, Germany, France, and Great Britain would enter the fight and begin mass-mobilizing troops. “I look at these lines, written by my hand, as if I was out of my mind. World War!” Today, the causes and consequences of the First World War can be as puzzling as when Gippius put those words to paper.…