World History: World War I: The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

The Assassination

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An Illustrated History of World War I
by John Keegan

Nowhere was tension greater than in the Balkans. The spark that ignited the powder-keg was the assassination in Sarajevo of the Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sophia by Gavrilo Princip. He was a member of Narodna Odbrana, a Serbian nationalist organization.

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