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Article: THE PITY OF WAR.(Review)
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- The Washington Monthly
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- January 1, 2000
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THE PITY OF WAR
by Naill Ferguson Basic Books, $30.00
ON THE EVIDENCE OF THE LATE George Vesel, of Carmel, California, one of the most influential people of the twentieth century was a teenage girl who lived in Sarajevo in 1914. Vesel, whom I interviewed in 1986, had been a close friend during his youth of Gavrilo Princip, who murdered the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand and his wife on June 28, 1914, thus precipitating a chain of events leading, sequentially, to the First World War, the Russian Revolution, the rise of Hitler, the Second World War, the Cold War, Vietnam, and so on. According to Vesel, Princip was motivated to perform the fateful deed (to ...