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Welcome to this new project of mine, which I hope I will take up to an alternate present day, taking on a point of divergence that reached its hundredth anniversary this year: what if Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne, hadn't been assassinated in Sarajevo on June, 28 1914, throwing Europe into the cycle that would lead to World War One?

The name of the first part of the timeline, For Want Of A Sandwich, refers to the ridiculously random character of the assassination itself: unscathed from a previous bomb attack earlier in the day, the Archduke insisted to meet the victims of the attack in the hospital, and his escort took a wrong road; he stopped by a street where the assassin, Gavrilo Princip, was eating a sandwich in a café, having given up the whole operation, believing it to have failed.

In this TL, the driver takes another way and arrives at the hospital without a scratch, and Archduke Franz Ferdinand is able to make it safely out of Sarajevo.

This TL will draw on my own considerations about my own considerations in alternate history, here reported to the whole XXth Century, and be written both in English and French (although in English only for the readers of alternatehistory.com). One fan of Hearts of Iron II will be able to see influences to the Kaiserreich mod, to which I participated back in the day.

Since my President Ross Perot TL, I tried a cultural TL relying on cinema that I was forced to give up due to lack of time, and my development of a President Thomas Dewey TL went to a halt also. I hope I won't end this one and see what comes out! Thanks for your feedback and suggestions, they are totally needed.
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