100 years ago today, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie - TopicsExpress



          

100 years ago today, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Igniting World War I with 10 million dead. A casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents technological and industrial sophistication - Machine warfare. The beginning of a century of wholesale slaughter previously unimagined, and which made all prior wars look like childs play. Bosnian Serbs erected a statue today, in honor of the teenage assassin, Gavrilo Princip.
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 08:03:01 +0000

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