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'Misfire: The Sarajevo Assassination and the Winding Road to World War 1' by Paul Miller-Melamed
Oxford University Press, 2022 £22.99 Hardback 194 pages, 32 images, 4 maps. ISBN 9780195331042. It is sometimes said that ‘there is a reason for everything’ and for a world changing event as impactful and far–reaching as the First World War then the quest for a root cause takes on a particular urgency. Whilst the expansive histography on this...
The Law of Unintended Consequences
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Ross Beadle: The Road to Sarajevo. The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand and the Balkan Origins of the First World War. A bizarre and unlikely chain of events led to the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 1914. This talk examines the sequence of chance events in the preceding 36 years, and even on the day of the killing, and...




