The early chapters of The Assassination of the Archduke concentrate on Franz Ferdinand’s family, birth, childhood, education, and military career. This gives the reader a good look at the complexities ...

An assassination attempt against Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has sent shockwaves through a country where such violence is ‘unprecedented’. Central and Eastern European politicians ...

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand led to events that meant even if people didn’t want to fight, they had made promises which had to be kept. 28th July 1914 – Austria-Hungary ...

A complicated assassination plot was developed and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand took place. Immediately following the assassination Princip was arrested and sentenced to 20 years ...

The Black Hand Gang worked together to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and thus trigger a chain of events that led to World War One, but did you know that their collaboration was ...

The Easter Promenade is back this Sunday on South Street. Marchers can join the kickoff walk, enter the costume contest or ...

One hundred years ago this past summer, western countries, including Canada, ended up in conflict as a result of the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, the now-famous ...

In 1914, just after of Franz Ferdinand's assassination that eventually caused World War I, a steamship approaches a desolate island on the edge of the Antarctic Circle, where a young nameless man ...

April 15, History Eighty years ago, soldiers from the Soviet Union’s Red Army invaded Nazi Germany from the east and arrived ...

Taking a cue from Talking Heads and Gang of Four, Franz Ferdinand combined art rock with danceable grooves. When punk rock evolved to its later form, musicians had replaced speed and angst with ...