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Any other books about Gavrilo Princip? Thank you !
Ian Howgate Hi Tim, I have a signed first edition of Dedijer and have been researching the 28th June 1914 for 5 years. I like Dedijer but cannot agree with your a…moreHi Tim, I have a signed first edition of Dedijer and have been researching the 28th June 1914 for 5 years. I like Dedijer but cannot agree with your appraisal of him. He is a man tainted by Tito's Croat autocratic regime that he lived in and his family tragedies. Having translated most of his sources I do not feel that he has been as diligent as you suggest, in particular in his reliance upon Albertini and Magrini but in numerous other places as well, Trisic and Stanjeovic, for example. He contrives a theory which I feel is designed in a backhanded way to fit Tito's desire to put the blame at the feet of Royal Serbia. It is however considerably better than Albertini who was Mussolini's (and probably therefore Hitler's) stooge as much as Dedijer was Tito's. This said I broadly support your perspective on these assassinations though my research takes matter further and deeper - you might be surprised by what else has lain hidden!(less)
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