Misfire: The Sarajevo Assassination and the Winding Road to World War I Homefront History and other notations in the

and other notations in the work

His war record was unique

but they were assigned to segregated units and often relegated to labor and support duties rather than direct combat

After steaming out of New York City on December 1

an esteemed journalist and keen amateur aviator

Misfire: The Sarajevo Assassination and the Winding Road to World War I Homefront History and other notations in theDescription by Paul Miller Melamed Hardcover The story has so often been told: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Habsburg Empire, was shot dead on June 28, 1914, in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. Thirty days later, the Archduke's uncle, Emperor Franz Joseph, declared war on the Kingdom of Serbia, producing the chain reaction of European powers entering the First World War. In Misfire, Paul Miller Melamed narrates the history of the