Mark Cornwall is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Southampton, UK. He is a leading authority on the late Habsburg monarchy and the history of 20th-century Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. His recent publications include Sacrifice and Rebirth: The Legacy of the Last Habsburg War (co-edited along with John Paul Newman; 2016) and The Devil's Wall: The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha (2012).

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: The Southern Slav Question, Mark Cornwall (University of Southampton, UK)Part I - Tinder and Spark1. Franz Ferdinand: Power and Image, Alma Hannig (University of Bonn, Germany)2. Great Expectations: The Habsburgh Heir-Apparent and the Southern Slavs, Andrej Rahten (Slovene Academy of Sciences, Slovenia)3. Mlada Bosna: The Educational and Cultural Context, Robin Okey (University of Warwick, UK)4. Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, or Serbo-Croatian?: Frictions over the Language Question in the Habsburg Army, Tamara Scheer (University of Vienna, Austria)5. The Mentality of the Croatian Aristocracy, Iskra Iveljic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)Part II - International Blaze6. Why Did Nobody Control Apis?: Serbian Military Intelligence and the Sarajevo Assassinations, Danilo Šarenac (University of Belgrade, Serbia)7. Why Fight a Third Balkan War?: The Habsburg Mindset in 1914, Lothar Höbelt (University of Vienna, Austria)8. 'Six Powers Appalled by War': The July Crisis and the Limits of Crisis Management, Thomas Otte (University of East Anglia, UK)9. The British Elite and the Sarajevo Assassinations, Roy Bridge (University of Leeds, UK)Part III - Regional Blaze10. The Outbreak of War in Habsburg Trieste, Borut Klabjan (University of Koper, Slovenia)11. Defining Traitors and Loyalists in Habsburg Croatia, Mark Cornwall (University of Southampton, UK)12. The Inner Enemy: The Habsburg State and its Serb Citizens in Herzegovina 1913-1918, Heiner Grunert (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany)13. The Sarajevo Assassinations in Czech Memory after the Great War, Dagmar Hajková (Czech Academic of Sciences, Czech Republic)14. The Combustible Impact of Sarajevo, Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia, UK)Index

An excellent collection of essays that brings original insight to an historical topic that has occupied historians for over a century. Too often, the Sarajevo assassination is treated as the opening act in a war drama whose most important actions took place elsewhere. Not here: Sarajevo 1914 puts Franz Ferdinand and the Southern South question at the centre of its narrative, exploring its causes and consequences from a range of perspective and casting new light onto one of the most consequential events of the twentieth century.

Mark Cornwall is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Southampton, UK. He is a leading authority on the late Habsburg monarchy and the history of 20th-century Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. His recent publications include Sacrifice and Rebirth: The Legacy of the Last Habsburg War (co-edited along with John Paul Newman; 2016) and The Devil's Wall: The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha (2012).

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: The Southern Slav Question, Mark Cornwall (University of Southampton, UK)Part I - Tinder and Spark1. Franz Ferdinand: Power and Image, Alma Hannig (University of Bonn, Germany)2. Great Expectations: The Habsburgh Heir-Apparent and the Southern Slavs, Andrej Rahten (Slovene Academy of Sciences, Slovenia)3. Mlada Bosna: The Educational and Cultural Context, Robin Okey (University of Warwick, UK)4. Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, or Serbo-Croatian?: Frictions over the Language Question in the Habsburg Army, Tamara Scheer (University of Vienna, Austria)5. The Mentality of the Croatian Aristocracy, Iskra Iveljic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)Part II - International Blaze6. Why Did Nobody Control Apis?: Serbian Military Intelligence and the Sarajevo Assassinations, Danilo Šarenac (University of Belgrade, Serbia)7. Why Fight a Third Balkan War?: The Habsburg Mindset in 1914, Lothar Höbelt (University of Vienna, Austria)8. 'Six Powers Appalled by War': The July Crisis and the Limits of Crisis Management, Thomas Otte (University of East Anglia, UK)9. The British Elite and the Sarajevo Assassinations, Roy Bridge (University of Leeds, UK)Part III - Regional Blaze10. The Outbreak of War in Habsburg Trieste, Borut Klabjan (University of Koper, Slovenia)11. Defining Traitors and Loyalists in Habsburg Croatia, Mark Cornwall (University of Southampton, UK)12. The Inner Enemy: The Habsburg State and its Serb Citizens in Herzegovina 1913-1918, Heiner Grunert (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany)13. The Sarajevo Assassinations in Czech Memory after the Great War, Dagmar Hajková (Czech Academic of Sciences, Czech Republic)14. The Combustible Impact of Sarajevo, Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia, UK)Index

An excellent collection of essays that brings original insight to an historical topic that has occupied historians for over a century. Too often, the Sarajevo assassination is treated as the opening act in a war drama whose most important actions took place elsewhere. Not here: Sarajevo 1914 puts Franz Ferdinand and the Southern South question at the centre of its narrative, exploring its causes and consequences from a range of perspective and casting new light onto one of the most consequential events of the twentieth century.

Mark Cornwall is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Southampton, UK. He is a leading authority on the late Habsburg monarchy and the history of 20th-century Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. His recent publications include Sacrifice and Rebirth: The Legacy of the Last Habsburg War (co-edited along with John Paul Newman; 2016) and The Devil's Wall: The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha (2012).

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: The Southern Slav Question, Mark Cornwall (University of Southampton, UK)Part I - Tinder and Spark1. Franz Ferdinand: Power and Image, Alma Hannig (University of Bonn, Germany)2. Great Expectations: The Habsburgh Heir-Apparent and the Southern Slavs, Andrej Rahten (Slovene Academy of Sciences, Slovenia)3. Mlada Bosna: The Educational and Cultural Context, Robin Okey (University of Warwick, UK)4. Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, or Serbo-Croatian?: Frictions over the Language Question in the Habsburg Army, Tamara Scheer (University of Vienna, Austria)5. The Mentality of the Croatian Aristocracy, Iskra Iveljic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)Part II - International Blaze6. Why Did Nobody Control Apis?: Serbian Military Intelligence and the Sarajevo Assassinations, Danilo Šarenac (University of Belgrade, Serbia)7. Why Fight a Third Balkan War?: The Habsburg Mindset in 1914, Lothar Höbelt (University of Vienna, Austria)8. 'Six Powers Appalled by War': The July Crisis and the Limits of Crisis Management, Thomas Otte (University of East Anglia, UK)9. The British Elite and the Sarajevo Assassinations, Roy Bridge (University of Leeds, UK)Part III - Regional Blaze10. The Outbreak of War in Habsburg Trieste, Borut Klabjan (University of Koper, Slovenia)11. Defining Traitors and Loyalists in Habsburg Croatia, Mark Cornwall (University of Southampton, UK)12. The Inner Enemy: The Habsburg State and its Serb Citizens in Herzegovina 1913-1918, Heiner Grunert (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany)13. The Sarajevo Assassinations in Czech Memory after the Great War, Dagmar Hajková (Czech Academic of Sciences, Czech Republic)14. The Combustible Impact of Sarajevo, Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia, UK)Index

An excellent collection of essays that brings original insight to an historical topic that has occupied historians for over a century. Too often, the Sarajevo assassination is treated as the opening act in a war drama whose most important actions took place elsewhere. Not here: Sarajevo 1914 puts Franz Ferdinand and the Southern South question at the centre of its narrative, exploring its causes and consequences from a range of perspective and casting new light onto one of the most consequential events of the twentieth century.