Can you hear the drums Ferdinand-oh – part 2

And so it begins – assassination and aftermath. Immediately after the assassination, the Sarajevo police had both Čabrinović and Princip (who also failed in his attempt to commit suicide) in custody. By the following day, 29 June 1914, their interrogation …

Can you hear the drums Ferdinand,Oh?

On 28 June 1914, near the Latin Bridge in Sarajevo, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were shot by Gavrilo Princip – a political assassination that triggered World War I. History often portrays it as that simple. It’s not. …

Sarajevo: City of Contrasts – part 2

A place unlike anywhere else in Europe. Life in Sarajevo but especially in the market in the 16th and 17th centuries was likely shocking, exotic, and perhaps bordering on incomprehensible to the Europeans who came to trade there. Sarajevo was …