I've always been interested in history, and the First World War in particular. In this blog I plan to track the events of the War a hundred years on, link to relavant articles and mix it all up with a bit of autobiography and family history as one of my grandfathers fought in the war.
Sunday, January 19, 2014
On the Incompetence of Chauffeurs
The death of Princess Diana in in a chauffeur driven car in the Pont de l'Alma produced (literally) many millions of column inches of comment and speculation.
But IMHO the wrong turning taken in Sarajevo by the chauffeur of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand, despite the subsequent claims by his descendants was to have a far greater effect on world history:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/15/archduke-franz-ferdinand-first-world-war?CMP=twt_gu
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