The Assassination of the Archduke : Sarajevo 1914 and the murder that changed the world

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The Assassination of the Archduke : Sarajevo 1914 and the murder that changed the world / Greg King & Sue Woolmans ; foreword by Sophie von Hohenberg. - London : Pan Books, 2014. - 384 strony, [16] stron tablic : fotografie ; 19,5 cm.

Author

King Greg (1964- ) Autor Woolmans Sue Autor Chotek Sophie (1868-1914) Przedmowa

Form of Work

Książki Publikacje popularnonaukowe

Demographic Group

Literatura amerykańska

Subject

Franciszek Ferdynand (arcyksiążę austriacki ; 1863-1914) Politycy Zabójstwo polityczne Austria

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Biografia

ISBN

978-1-4472-0147-2

n the summer of 1914, three great empires dominated Europe: Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary. Four years later all had vanished in the chaos of World War I. One event precipitated the conflict, and at its hear was a tragic love story. When Austrian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand married for love against the wishes of the emperor, he and his wife Sophie were humiliated and shunned, yet they remained devoted to each other and to their children. The two bullets fired in Sarajevo not only ended their love story, but also led to war and a century of conflict. Set against a backdrop of glittering privilege, The Assassination of the Archduke combines royal history, touching romance, and political murder in a moving portrait of the end of an era. One hundred years after the event, it offers the startling truth behind the Sarajevo assassinations, including Serbian complicity and examines rumors of conspiracy and official negligence. Events in Sarajevo also doomed the couple’s children to lives of loss, exile, and the horrors of Nazi concentration camps, their plight echoing the horrors unleashed by their parents’ deaths. Challenging a century of myth, The Assassination of the Archduke resonates as a very human story of love destroyed by murder, revolution, and war. [goodreads.com]

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