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|title=The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Murder That Changed the World
|author=Greg King and Sue Woolmans
|rating=5
|genre=Biography
|summary=Possibly no assassination in history can have had such momentous consequences for the history of the world as that of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, in June 1914. It was their killing which led directly to the outbreak of the First World War, just six weeks later.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1250000165</amazonuk>
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|title=Red Love: The Story of an East German Family
|summary=The majority of recent books on the War Poets tend to focus on their lives during and immediately after the conflict. This enterprising account, borrowing its name from the poem by Wilfred Owen, takes a different approach in spanning a full fifty years or more. It begins with the first meeting of Siegfried Sassoon and Rupert Brooke at one of Eddie Marsh’s breakfasts in July 1914. Marsh was a tireless supporter of modern painters and after that promising new writers, particularly poets. The journey, or rather account of meetings, takes us to the western front and back to England, culminating in a reunion of two of the longest-lived, Sassoon and David Jones, in 1964.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845951808</amazonuk>
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