Bibliograph

The trigger, hunting the assassin who brought the world to war, Tim Butcher

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The trigger, hunting the assassin who brought the world to war, Tim Butcher

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The trigger

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Tim Butcher

Sub title

hunting the assassin who brought the world to war

Summary

Sarajevo, 1914. On a June morning, nineteen-year-old Gavrilo Princip drew a pistol from his pocket and fired the first shot of the First World War, killing the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Princip then launched a series of events that would transform the world forever. Retracing Princip's steps from the feudal frontier village of his birth to the city of Belgrade and ultimately Sarajevo, journalist and bestselling author Tim Butcher discovers details about the young assassin that have eluded historians for a century. Drawing on his own experiences in the Balkans covering the Bosnian War in the 1990s, Butcher also unravels the complexities and conflicts of this part of the world, showing how the events of that day in 1914 still have influence today

Target audience

adult

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