#WW1 ARCHDUKE TORRENT#

Well–illustrated in colour and monochrome – and by the author’s research and expertise – this, the fourth monograph published by the Royal Armouries since 2017, is both an intriguing and worthwhile addition to the series. Whilst there is no definite evidence (either way) that he wore the patented proven – and here reproduced – silk based Zeglen Bullet Proof Cloth Company armour, the Royal Armouries innovative scientific evaluation of faithfully re– created examples of the armour are sufficiently surprising to create a fascinating and credible Great War ‘what if’. In addition to evaluating the weapon used and its contemporary alternatives, she details her research into a silk–based body armour – protection so effective that it could, conceivably, have saved the Archduke’s life. The author, a firearms specialist at the Royal Armouries – concise in her authorship – also shows that Ferdinand was but one of 36 targets of successful assassination plots against those in ‘high profile positions of power between 18’. During World War I, trench warfare was a defensive military tactic used. Reaching all the way back to that momentous day in 1914 in Sarajevo, Lisa Traynor’s Royal Armouries monograph offers a sound description and evaluation of the event, precise details of weapons used and evaluates the possibility of the Archduke’s survival had he been wearing an unusual body armour invented by one Casimir Zenglen. with the assassinations of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife.

#WW1 ARCHDUKE TORRENT#

There has been no shortage of books since the ‘shot that rang around the world’ was fired, although the raging torrent of print of a few years ago has begun to slow to a trickle as non– specialist publishers hammer the final nails into the sealed lids of their boxes marked ‘First World War’.for a while at least. The archduke was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist, and Austrian emperor Franz Joseph decided to check Serbian ambitions in the Balkans by invading it. August 2-7, 1914 Germany invades Luxembourg and Belgium. August 128, 1914 Germany declares war on Russia, France, and Belgium. JWorld War I begins when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.

JAustria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, beginning World War I. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, are assassinated by a Bosnian Serb nationalist in Sarajevo. £14.99, 71pp, 39 ills, notes and refs, bibliog, index. Archduke Francis Ferdinand is assassinated.

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