![]() ![]() Later, these same Serbians would be responsible for the murder of Archduke Ferdinand. From this position, he helped stir dissent among Serbians and other Slavic races against the non-Slavic leaders of Austria-Hungary. ![]() The leader of the plot, Dragutin Dimitrijević, was rewarded by being named the head of the Serbian military. This attack, though horrendous, was wildly "successful," at least by the terrorists' standards. In 1903, Serbian militants stormed the royal home in Belgrade and brutally murdered King Alexander and Queen Draga, shooting them, stabbing them, and mutilating their faces. ![]() While the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand is frequently cited as the spark that began World War I, Clark begins his narrative eleven years before that killing, describing a different terrorist act that would reshape global politics forever. Clark explores the complicated geopolitical situation of the early twentieth century, which allowed a global conflict to erupt from the assassination of an archduke few outside of Austria knew or cared about at the time. ![]() In his non-fiction book, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (2012), Australian historian Christopher Clark traces the sources of World War I. ![]()
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