THE TRIGGER: Hunting The Assassin Who Brought The World To War

Butcher, Tim

ISBN 10: 0802123252 / ISBN 13: 9780802123251

Published by NY. 2014. Grove Press, 2014

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offwhite hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first american edition. first printing (#1 in # line). xxii+326p. double page b&w map with inset. 4 addtional maps. b&w photo illustrations. notes & bibliography. index. biography of gavrilo princip. world war i. conspiracy theory. secret societies. narodna odbrana. black hand. apis. covert operations. espionage. crna ruka. world history. ~ On a summer morning in Sarajevo 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 fifteen million dead from fighting between 1914 and 1918 and prove 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 iself by following Princip's journey. Journalist and author of the bestselling Blood River, Tim Butcher retraces Princip's 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 Sarajevo. He visits the ruins of Princip's childhood home, talks with his surviving relatives, and locates school records that have gone previously untouched, all the while illuminating our understanding of Princip~the person and the place that shaped him~and making discoveries that have eluded historians for a hundred years. Traveling through the Balkans 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, showing how the events that were sparked that day in June 1914 still have influence today. Published on the centenary of the assassination, The Trigger is a rich and timely work, part travelogue, part reportage, and part history.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE TRIGGER: Hunting The Assassin Who Brought The World To War
• Publisher: NY. 2014. Grove Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802123252
• ISBN 13: 9780802123251
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • world war i
  • conspiracy theory
  • biography

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Synopsis

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.

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 Prinip’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 Sarajevo, Tim Butcher illuminates our understanding of Princip— the person and the place that shaped him—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.

About the Author

Born in 1967, Tim Butcher was on the staff of the Daily Telegraph from 1990 to 2009 serving as chief war correspondent, Africa bureau chief, and Middle East correspondent. His first book, Blood River, was a number one bestseller in the UK, a Richard and Judy Book Club selection and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. He is currently based in Cape Town with his family.