Storms Over Luxembourg

World War I (1914-1918), the war to end all wars, is both a continuation of an earlier conflict, the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), and a prelude to the greater horrors of World War II (1939-1945). A fact historians and scholars tend to ignore is that little Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was in various ways at the origin or at the heart of these conflicts. That detail is lost in the bigger picture of European and world history.