Well then GregF from what you say you certainly haven't - or listened to her lectures either I'd guess:

Salzburg, Austria, 2014:

"How could a Europe that had been so prosperous and so largely peaceful for so many years, that was basking in a glorious period of trade and technological advance, that was flourishing within a long-established global order, have been thrown — in the course of a month — into the bloodiest conflict the world had then ever seen?"