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Alexander Mitic's avatar

Excellent article.

Yes, Ferdinand was planning to reshape Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Tripartite Monarchy of Austria, Hungary and Yugoslavia. Something like that.

Those maneuvers which Ferdinand attended were provocation directed towards Serbs in Monarchy.

And yes, Gavrilo Princip was incompetent assassin. He was very bad shooter, because in the period before Ferdinand assasination, while Princip was practising shooting with revolver, he gave very bad results.

I am looking forward to new articles about this topic from Alex, beacuse I am from Serbia.

Greetings

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Sue Nagle's avatar

Perfect. Just the sort of content I’d hoped for.

There is a tendency to compare Wilhelm II, George V and Nicholas II but adding Franz Ferdinand into the mix gives a very interesting perspective on what might have been.

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Alex Churchill's avatar

Thank you! Yes, the more regular articles will be thoughts and stories, but the monthly feature is more a source based, research pierce where I really feel like I have something important to say.

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Todd A Raffensperger's avatar

An outstanding piece of writing and research.

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Alex Churchill's avatar

Thank you - part two is released tomorrow (the assasination)

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Trevor Torkington's avatar

Loved this. Looking forward to reading the next instalment.

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