copyright 1959; Criterion Books, Inc. publishers, New York; hardbound; very good condition with unmarked pages; dust jacket quite good with minimal edge wear.
 
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Story of the planning, execution, and aftermath of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand--which set off the European War--skillfully told against the broad background of European history.
 
On the morning of June 28, 1914, seven young men took up the positions they had previously agreed upon along the avenue called the Appel Quay in Sarajevo, capital of the then-Austrian province of Bosnia...The dramatic story of the planning, execution, and aftermath of the assassination was all but buried in the debris...