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The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World

Autor Greg King, Sue Woolmans Sophie Von Hohenberg
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 aug 2014

Drawing on unpublished letters and rare primary sources, King and Woolmans tell the true story behind the tragic romance and brutal assassination that sparked World War I

In 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.

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ISBN-13: 9781250055460
ISBN-10: 1250055466
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 139 x 210 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: St. Martin's Griffin

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Greg King and Sue Woolmans

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The tragic story behind 'the shot that rang around the world' - the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his beloved wife in Sarajevo in June 1914The tragic story behind `the shot that rang round the world' - the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his beloved wife in Sarajevo in June 1914