The Rest of History

The Sandwich That Started World War I

Episode Summary

On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination was supposed to be impossible—the bomb had missed, the route had changed, and the conspirators had given up. But then the royal driver took a wrong turn, stopped directly in front of a delicatessen, and 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip looked up from his sandwich to see his target sitting five feet away.