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    The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
    The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
    The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
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    The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War

    Written by Tim Butcher

    Narrated by Gerard Doyle

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    On a summer morning in Sarajevo almost a hundred years ago, a teenager took a pistol out of his pocket and fired not just the opening rounds of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history. By killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gavrilo Princip started a cycle of events that would leave 15 million dead from fighting between 1914 and 1918 and that proved fatal for empires and a way of ruling that had held for centuries.

    The Trigger tells the story of a young man who changed the world forever. It focuses on the drama of the incident itself by following Princip's journey. By retracing his steps from the feudal frontier village of his birth, through the mountains of the northern Balkans to the great plain city of Belgrade, and ultimately to Sarajevo, Tim Butcher illuminates our understanding of Princip and makes discoveries about him that have eluded historians for a hundred years. Traveling through the Balkans on Princip's trail, and drawing on his own experiences there as a war reporter during the 1990s, Butcher unravels this complex part of the world and its conflicts, and shows how the events that were sparked that day in June 1914 still have influence today. Published for the centenary of the assassination, The Trigger is a rich and timely work, part travelogue, part reportage, and part history.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJun 12, 2014
    ISBN9781494573010

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      This book turned out to be somewhat different than what I was hoping for. I was hoping to focus exclusively on Gavrilo Princip and his thoughts and actions. From my point of view, there was far too much about the Bosnian Civil War of 1992-1995, which the author covered for the Telegraph newspaper, and is not all that related to the murder of the Archduke and his wife. Nevertheless, the book has a lot of good historical information and is worth reading.