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The desperate act

by Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht

AssassinationPolitics and government

A documented story of the event which took place on June 28, 1914. Two shots were fired that triggered a chain of events which culminated in World War I. The archduke was killed by a Bosnian student, Princip, who with five other young men, organized a plot to assassinate a tyrant because they desperately wanted to be free.

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Book data: Open Library