Ensconced in the back seat of his open-roofed Double Phaeton limousine, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian empire, warily motorcades from a town hall meeting through the streets of Sarajevo, Bosnia.

And with good reason. Just hours earlier, the archduke narrowly escapes a bomb-thrower’s assassination attempt that seriously injures a group of well-wishers standing along his parade route. Hoping to visit the victims, Ferdinand instructs his limo driver, Leopold Lojka, to brave a Serbian-anarchist-infested neighborhood and head for the local hospital. Lojka obliges, but in his confusion decides to take a back-alley route -- a bad idea with deadly consequences that will change the course of world history forever. Listen, lament and learn all about it now.

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