A Farewell to Sobriety: Drinking During the Great War

Editor’s Note: This article is for Molotov Cocktail, our channel dedicated to drinks and drinking. We are, after all, War on the Rocks.   The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand is often regarded as the proverbial match in the tinderbox where World War I is concerned. The imperial-nationalist tensions surrounding Austria-Hungary’s waning empire, tensions which inspired … Continue reading A Farewell to Sobriety: Drinking During the Great War