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July/August 2014
The archduke's assassination was the opening scene of a drama that has not ended. Gavrilo Princip put a bullet through Europe's heart
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July/August 2014
We historians are failing in our responsibility to illuminate past and present by focusing on the slaughter without explaining its purpose
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July/August 2014
This study of empire building is imaginative and vivid, but has a loose grip on detail
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July/August 2014
Vermes' work skilfully separates fact from Herod's grizzly fiction in a succinct and readable book
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