Emperor Franz Josef was in his study when word reached him that his son, Crown Prince Rudolf, had committed suicide. Ten years later, a young Italian anarchist stabbed the Emperor's wife to death. And sixteen years after that, the Franz Josef's nephew and heir would be gunned down by a Bosnian Serb in Sarajevo-the event that propelled Europe into the world war. The Emperor would not live to see the end of the conflict, nor the subsequent dismemberment of his multinational empire.
Emperor Franz Josef was in his study when word reached him that his son, Crown Prince Rudolf, had committed suicide. Ten years later, a young Italian anarchist stabbed the Emperor's wife to death. And sixteen years after t...
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