Back to AtD. General European War, p.937

[Mark Kohut]

p. 937 more historical foreshadowing.   Yashmeen says 
It [Phosgene] runs straight across the heart of Thrace. 
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosgene
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrace
 
Thrace, originally 'without boundaries' and where in Greek mythology the son-of-the-war-god 
was said to live.     
 
NOT where most of WW1 came to be fought in actuality. 
WW1 as the foreseen war that went thru the metaphoric heart of democracy--a Greek invention? 
 
And/or, this history before WW1: 
Austria-Hungary precipitated the Bosnian crisis of 1908–1909 by officially annexing the former Ottoman territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which it had occupied since 1878. This angered the Kingdom of Serbia and its patron, the Pan-Slavic and Orthodox Russian Empire.[22] Russian political manoeuvring in the region destabilised peace accords that were already fracturing in what was known as "the powder keg of Europe".[22]
 
Ethno-linguistic map of Austria–Hungary, 1910
In 1912 and 1913 the First Balkan War was fought between the Balkan League and the fracturing Ottoman Empire. The resulting Treaty of London further shrank the Ottoman Empire, creating an independent Albanian State while enlarging the territorial holdings of Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece. When Bulgaria attacked both Serbia and Greece on 16 June 1913, it lost most of Macedonia to Serbia and Greece and Southern Dobruja to Romania in the 33-day Second Balkan War, further destabilising the region.[23]