The Assassination That Started Everything
A driver's wrong turn on a Sarajevo street started the twentieth century.
On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip's first assassination attempt failed. Franz Ferdinand's car took a wrong turn minutes later and stopped directly in front of him. But the popular version — sandwich in hand, dumb luck — is a myth. The real story is stranger, more tragic, and haunted by a question historians still cannot close: was World War One inevitable, or did the twentieth century turn on a single contingent moment?
One story, one sitting.
Mythio is a library of audio documentaries on the ideas, people, and events that shaped the world. Each episode is researched across the best sources, fact-checked, and told in full. Most run twenty to thirty minutes, long enough to go deep, short enough to finish in one sitting.