World War One Facts That Are Stranger Than Most People Realize

"Franz Ferdinand's driver took a wrong turn in Sarajevo and stopped the car exactly where it should not have been. At Tanga, British troops broke off an attack because of African bees rather than German fire. This episode covers the First World War at the level where accidents, not plans, decided the outcome. In this episode: The wrong turn in Sarajevo that put the archduke's car in the worst possible place The Battle of Tanga, interrupted by swarms of bees A replica of Paris built in open country out of timber and electric lighting Paris taxis carrying troops toward the Marne with their meters still running The sealed train that moved Lenin across Germany and into Russia The war is usually explained through strategy, and yet its turning points keep coming down to insects, weather and a driver who did not know the route."