ABSTRACT
The ‘July crisis’ began with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, on 28 June and ended with the outbreak of war in the first days of August 1914. The conspirators who carried out the murder of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne were young Bosnian Serbs, aided by members of a Serbian secret society, operating from Belgrade. In the shadows of the conspiracy lurked the chief of Serbian military intelligence, known as ‘Apis’. His involvement in a plot, but not the details of it, was suspected by the Serbian prime minister and the minister of the interior.
