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 ...

Theater that leaves audiences with the option of drawing their own conclusions can be compelling. Preopening notices for Archduke, currently playing at Philly’s Tonyaward-winning Wilma Theatre, made ...

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 ...

Now, Austria-Hungary claimed Serbia was responsible for the death of Franz Ferdinand. The assassin was Gavrilo Princip, a student of Serbian descent. Following the assassination in 1914 ...

Just under a hundred years later Pope Francis was voted into office on 13th March 2013. His eleven year papacy did not ...

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 ...

You may have hazy memories of Franz Ferdinand (the Austrian royal ... A new production at the Wilma Theater fictionalizes his 1914 assassination, which set off World War I.