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Misfire - The Sarajevo Assassination and the Winding Road to World War I (Hardcover)
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Misfire - The Sarajevo Assassination and the Winding Road to World War I (Hardcover)
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A new interpretation of the Sarajevo assassination and the origins
of World War I that places focus on the Balkans and the prewar
period. The story has so often been told: Archduke Franz Ferdinand,
heir to the throne of the Habsburg Empire, was shot dead on June
28, 1914, in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. Thirty days later,
the Archduke's uncle, Emperor Franz Joseph, declared war on the
Kingdom of Serbia, producing the chain reaction of European powers
entering the First World War. In Misfire, Paul Miller-Melamed
narrates the history of the Sarajevo assassination and the origins
of World War I from the perspective of the Balkans. Rather than
focusing on the bang of assassin Gavrilo Princip's gun or
reinforcing the mythology that has arisen around this act,
Miller-Melamed embeds the incident in the longer-term conditions of
the Balkans that gave rise to the political murder. He thus
illuminates the centrality of the Bosnian Crisis and the Balkan
Wars of the early twentieth century to European power politics,
while explaining how Serbs, Bosnians, and Habsburg leaders
negotiated their positions in an increasingly dangerous
geopolitical environment. Despite the absence of evidence tying
official Serbia to the assassination conspiracy, Miller-Melamed
shows how it spiraled into a diplomatic crisis that European
statesmen proved unable to resolve peacefully. Contrasting the vast
disproportionality between a single deadly act and an act of war
that would leave ten million dead, Misfire contends that the real
causes for the world war lie in "civilized" Europe rather than the
endlessly discussed political murder.
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