Bibliograph

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

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Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-311) and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The trigger

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

890615412

Responsibility statement

Tim Butcher

Sub title

hunting the assassin who brought the world to war

Summary

"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 proved fatal for empires and a way of ruling that had held for centuries."--Publisher's description

Table Of Contents

Fresh flotsam -- A troublesome teenager -- The wild West -- Over Tent Mountain -- Fishing in a minefield -- Rocking Bosnia -- The fall of Gabriel -- Fin-de-siècle chat rooms -- A mystical journey -- Arming the trigger -- An assassin's luck -- More than one shadow

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