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The Sleepwalkers

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let the why answers grow, as it were, out of the how answers, rather than the other way around. — location: 383 ^ref-54085

to borrow the words of his assassin, Gavrilo Princip, ‘as future Sovereign he would have prevented our union by carrying through certain reforms’. — location: 1347 ^ref-16914

Within the nationalist networks, there were older men prepared not just to help them with money and advice, but also to show them affection and respect, to provide them with a sense – so conspicuously lacking in their experience hitherto – that their lives were meaningful, — location: 1408 ^ref-61174

The Sarajevo boys would be unable to testify, for the simple reason that they knew nothing about the larger background to the plot. The impression would thus emerge that this was a purely local undertaking, with no links to Belgrade. — location: 1483 ^ref-53826

There is nonetheless powerful evidence that a warning of sorts was given. — location: 1573 ^ref-20344

a warning of sorts was sent, but not one that was adequate to the situation. — location: 1594 ^ref-7881