Romaenjoyer

Romaenjoyer t1_j29s2uv wrote

I would recommend them to play battlefield 1, it is a first person shooter set in World War 1, it has a campaign where you can play some of the most beautiful and heart breaking real stories from the Great War, and an online version where you can play even on the fronts that aren't portrayed more often by the media (like the Italian, Ottoman, and Russian front both against the germans and during the civil war).

It does a beautiful job because it teaches how war is at the same time an horrible thing and an intricate part of humanity, its actually really poetic from time to time, but of course, there is a big use of violence so I recommend it only if your kids are old enough.

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Romaenjoyer t1_j29ohja wrote

The central powers promised Italy a lot of lands and more colonies than the Entente, maybe if looked at from a more rational point of view their offer was actually better, but when you read about the encounters that the Italian foreign minister made with ambassadors from both factions it is clear that Italy only really cared about Trento (a city in Tyrol) and Trieste (a city in Istria).

Those cities and the nearby regions were considered what separated Italy from completing national unification, it was taught in the schools and engraved in the minds of the citizens: Italy one day shall go to war against the Austrian oppressor and unify once and for all.

It was just too important, nothing that the central powers could have offered would have changed Italy's mind and the shared hatred between Italy and Austria-Hungary didn't make talks easier.

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