Quote Originally Posted by davidbfpo View Post
JMA,

You cited

How about World War One? Germany was a parliamentary democracy, Austria-Hungary maybe less so, Russia was not, France, Great Britain and Belgium were.

A few decades before the Franco-Prussian War?

Exhausted my instant history memory on a Sunday evening.
David, I just don't know. Heard the award speech and that sounding odd (and interesting) so thought I would see if anyone here thought the same.