Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:20:54 +0200https://english.radio.cz/david-whiteman-forgotten-czech-story-man-who-triggered-world-war-i-8167353© 2026 Radio Prague InternationalWhen the Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip assassinated the heir to the Austrian throne in Sarajevo in 1914, he was just short of his twentieth birthday. Under Austrian law, this meant that he was too young to be executed. He was to spend the next four years in the garrison prison in Terezín, north of Prague, and this was where he died just before the end of the war, the result of tuberculosis and mistreatment. The little-known story of his forced stay in what is now the Czech Republic was the inspiration for the latest novel by the British writer, David Whiteman, who has just ended a two-month residency in Prague to complete the book. He spoke to David Vaughan.encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/whiteman_david.jpg?timestamp=1590472470 https://english.radio.cz/david-whiteman-forgotten-czech-story-man-who-triggered-world-war-i-8167353 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9