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Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!: A World without World War I by Richard Ned Lebow (view source)
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For anybody fascinated by political or social history, this is an stimulating book that will inevitably lead to some thought as to how the world could have developed, and how it could so easily have been a very different place today. The author assumes a fair level of knowledge on the part of the reader, without which it would probably prove heavy going. To call it ‘entertaining’ might not be strictly accurate, and I doubt if that was the intention. But as ‘alternative history’ for the well-informed, and at around 230 pages just the right length not to outstay its welcome, I would certainly recommend this.
To see how the century really evolved instead, we recommend [[Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt and Timothy Snyder]]; and for an account of what actually happened in June 1914, [[The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Murder That Changed the World by Greg King and Sue Woolmans]].
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