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To: workerbee
I'm finishing Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went To War In 1914. Great stuff. The author laments that the combined bibliographies (in all languages) on this topic amount to some 25,000 works, more than any human could read in a lifetime.

Princip did not act alone. Clark provides exquisite detail about how he was recruited and supported by the Serbian Black Hand, and what happened to his co-assassins. The Archduke's wife was shot because she was trying to cover her husband with her body. And the Archduke was not Serbia's enemy.

13 posted on 09/09/2013 2:47:02 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill
I haven't read Clark's book but David Fromkin's Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914? is a good read.

Vladimir Dedijer's book The Road to Sarajevo has a lot on Princip and the other conspirators--I believe one of the men involved in the plot was still alive when Dedijer was writing the book.

22 posted on 09/09/2013 9:56:44 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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