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Took me awhile to get through the prologue; West packs a lot in just 30 pages.
How Luccheni foreshadowed the fascist movement, then manifested by Mussolini who orders a successful assassination attempt on the King of Yugoslavia, believing that ‘with the King’s death the country would fall to pieces and be an easy prey to a foreign invader’
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How Luccheni foreshadowed the fascist movement, then manifested by Mussolini who orders a successful assassination attempt on the King of Yugoslavia, believing that ‘with the King’s death the country would fall to pieces and be an easy prey to a foreign invader’
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Finally decided to pick up this mammoth of a book.
I am reading the Canons edition, introduction by Geoff Dyer.
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I am reading the Canons edition, introduction by Geoff Dyer.
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How Serbia’s improved state under Peter Karadordevic’s rule after the murder of former King, Alexander Obrenovic excited the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s jealousy, causing the neighbouring Slavs under the Empire to want independence too.
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How this unrest manifested in the murder of Franz Ferdinand who naively visited a people in Sarajevo who had expressed their hostility towards him for his proposals ‘to make a tripartite monarchy of the Empire, by forming the Slavs into a separate kingdom.’ The Slavs wanted to be free.
How the events of WW1 pushed the Ottoman’s out of the region, enabling the Kingdom of Serbia to unify the neighbouring Slavic countries into one, Yugoslavia.
