Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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- Lords of Finance whole source · open book
The assassination in Sarajevo of the archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Austrian Empire, and his wife Sophie by a comic-opera band of bomb-throwing Serbian nationalists on June 28 had seemed at the time to be just another violent chapter in the disturbed history of the Balkans.
chapter: 2. A STRANGE AND LONELY MAN - Britain: 1914