Listening to The Rest is History’s new series on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and it’s as good as I hoped. Humanizes the guy, reveals the shitbirdery of his family and Hapsburg colleagues, and also explains why his assassination saved millions of birds.
/2 Now really looking forward to them covering the slow-motion car crash that is July 1914 which is an absolutely terrifying story of our inability to stop terrible things from happening
I rather enjoyed “Europe’s Last Summer” since it just focused on, as you put it, the slow-motion car crash. Not the war. I’ll have check out the podcast. Thanks!
