[workerbee]

I recently read 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson and have just begun The First World War by Hew Strachan. Such a fascinating time period that seems to get very little attention these days.

[Billthedrill]

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.