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The Archduke and the Assassin

by Cassels, Lavender

First US edition

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New York:: Stein & Day,, 1985.. First US edition. 1/4 cloth. Fine in Near Fine DJ. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. The book has 216 pages with index plus 16 pages black and white photos. The book is FINE. A very tight, bright copy. The dust jacket is NEAR FINE with minor wear and small closed tear at upper spine edge. NOT price-clipped and NOT remainered. JMVINTAGE specializes in Books, Magazines and Treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and...other curious people. The dust jacket reads:"No political assassination has affected the lives of more of the human race than that of Franz Ferdinand, heir apparent to the throne of the Austrian Empire. When Gavrilo Princip, a nineteen-year-old Bosnian student, murdered the Habsburg heir, he triggered a chain reaction that started World War I and that in turn led to World War II. Now, with unprecedented help from the Archduke's surviving daughter, the author for the first time thoroughly captures the personality of the Archduke who dreaded war, as well as of the student who coveted martyrdom, while illuminating the Balkan politics whose disarray set off the greatest carnage of modern times. Lavender Cassels, the author of The Struggle for the Ottoman Empire 1717-1740 and Clash of Generations, a Habsburg family drama of the nineteenth century, worked in Vienna in 1938 and 1939 and after the war on the staff of the Allied Control Commission." Table of Contents: PROLOGUE: THE HOUSE OF HAPSBURG; PART ONE ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND: An Archduke of no interest; Uncle and Nephew; Illness; Marriage; Frustration; PART TWO--THE MONARCHY AND THE SOUTH SLAVS The emergent South Slav threat; Bosnia Hercegovina: the world of Gavrilo Princip; The Annexation of Bosnia and Hercegovina; The Post-annexation Crisis; A Man called Stefanovic; 'The Smell of Blood'; 'History sometimes moves too slowly: it needs a push'; South Slav imbroglio; PART THREE-ENCOUNTER AT SARAJEVO Decision Making; The Assassins and their Target; On Stage in Sarajevo; Sunday June 28th 1914; Epilogue: 'The End of the Story'; SOURCES; REFERENCE NOTES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX