Virulent Serbophobe Marc MacKinnon writes: “The First World War began when Russia mobilized its army to defend Serbia against the Austro-Hungarian Empire following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian nationalist.” No, it didn’t. The First World War began when Austria started bombarding Belgrade; the first victims of the war were Serbs killed in the bombardment. Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand,  was not a Serb nationalist. He was a Bosnian Serb, a member of Young Bosna, who wanted Bosnians to be part of a united Yugoslavia. Bosnian Croat Ivo Andrić, later a Nobel laureate in literature, was also a member of Young Bosna.