Franz Ferdinand’s assassination is a well-known event. Not as well-known is the context in which the assassination took place. Tension was building in Serbia and the Balkans long before Gavrilo Princip fired his gun.

This was an act that sparked the July Crisis of 1914.

Citations and Links -

Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe went to War in 1914 (New York: HarperCollins, 2012)

Sean McMeekin, July 1914: Countdown to War (New York: Basic Books, 2013)

Grayson Myers, "Contradictory Explanations and Elusive Answers: The Historiography of the Sarajevo Assassination," The Macksey Journal 1, Article 114

Robert W. Seton-Watson, "The Sarajevo Murder Trial," The Slavonic Review 4, no. 12 (March, 1926): 645-656

Veljko M. Turanjanin and Dragana S. Cvorovic, "Sarajevo 1914: Trial Process Against Young Bosnia - Illusion of the Fair Process," Proceedings of the Faculty of Law, Novi Sad 50, no. 1 (2016): 183-198

https://www.firstworldwar.com/source/austrianreport.htm

https://www.firstworldwar.com/source/harrachmemoir.htm

https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Assassination_of_Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand

https://www.rferl.org/a/interview-christopher-clark-1914-lessons-for-today/25437773.html

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