The Sarajevo Assassination attached an evil connotation to the name of Sarajevo in history books, and a hundred years later the event is being commemorated, in documentary and artistic ways, with all its actual or potential historical, mythical, social and political meaning. We have been completely open - as we suggest with the title – to every relevant way of thinking about this historic event and its real or otential repercussions, and we have invited contributions from some of the best qualified people in the region and in countries with which Bosnia and Herzegovina shares the destiny of having once belonged to Austria-Hungary... The book you have in your hands is the product of this aspiration. It is ambitious but not, we hope, pretentious. The contributions of those who accepted the challenge are published in this book with a view not simply to asking questions or providing answers, but to marking a year in which the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina entered the world stage, and to making a small contribution to a consideration of the century that has passed, its changes and how these changes have affected us. As a result, this book offers a variety of historiographical insights, and suggests a background for a portrait of a historic event. At the same time it fictionalises some aspects of the event as a gift to the imagination of readers who understand that books are there to be read and not exclusively to resolve the crucial questions of the world. Autors of texts: Ivo Banac, Ivo Goldstein, Latinka Perović, Filip David, Svetislav Basara, Milan Zemko, Miljenko Jergović.