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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.
… were underway for the centennial anniversary of the assassination, his warning proved apt. Event organizers … meaning of his short life over the following century. The assassination itself was the realization of a plot by a … Serbia and other South Slavic peoples. As plots go, the assassination was one of the most successful ever conceived. …