Life can be unpredictable and is often infused with bitter irony. Consider the incredible and terrible course of the two brothers Ernst and Max. Born into the luxury of the Austro-Hungarian imperial ...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - A century after Gavrilo Princip ignited World War I with a shot from his handgun, the baby-faced Serb teenager who assassinated the Austro-Hungarian crown prince in ...

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on June 28, 1914, is widely seen as the central, precipitating event of the First World War: the spark that lit the conflagration.

Paris. — A year and a half ago it was possible to argue that the siege of Sarajevo was not “a new Sarajevo.” Unlike in 1914, the great powers were not interested parties. It was a domestic tragedy, of ...

Builders are crashing about, foremen are barking down their phones, a lorry is disgorging building materials and no one seems to be noticing two men trespassing on their site. Security seems to be a ...

If Princip could return today to the scene of his crime, he’d recognise almost every corner of Sarajevo’s old town, well restored since the Serbian siege of the early 1990s. The quay along which the ...

A year and a half ago it was possible to argue that the siege of Sarajevo was not “a new Sarajevo.” Unlike in 1914, the great powers were not interested parties. It was a domestic tragedy, of interest ...

The Ukraine crisis continues to tighten as it seems increasingly likely to end up in open conflict. Historical parallels may help understand the circumstances, but they may also obscure more than they ...

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2013. Pp. xxxviii, 384. Illus., map, stemma, notes, biblio., index. $27.99. ISBN: 1250000165 On the eve of the centennial of the ...

For all the horror that his assassination caused, Archduke Franz Ferdinand the man remains under-recognized. Made heir after his cousin committed suicide and his father declined the throne, Ferdinand ...