
The Assassin’s Shadow: The Beginning of World War I and the Legacy of Gavrilo Princip
On June 28, 1914, one event changed the world.
… Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. There, Princip was hailed as a national hero who had unified the South Slavs and freed them … increasingly portrayed the 1914 assassination as an act of national defense against those who intended to divide the … legacies—the perception of the Balkans as a hotbed of nationalism and the volatile “tinderbox of Europe.” Graffiti …