Paul Miller-Melamed teaches history at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin in Poland and McDaniel College. He is the author of From Revolutionaries to Citizens: Antimilitarism in France, 1870-1914 and coeditor of Embers of Empire: Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1914.
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The story has so often been told: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Habsburg Empire, was shot dead on June 28, 1914, in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. Thirty days later, the Archduke's uncle, Emperor Franz Joseph, declared war on the K... SEE MORE