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Title	:	The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
Author	:	Tim Butcher
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	May 1st 2014 by Chatto & Windus
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. War. World War I. Biography. Travel

The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War Hardcover | Pages: 352 pages

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On a summer morning in Sarajevo a hundred years ago, a teenage assassin named Gavrilo Princip fired not just the opening shots of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history, when he killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Yet the events Princip triggered were so monumental that his own story has been largely overlooked, his role garbled and motivations misrepresented. The Trigger puts this right, filling out as never before a figure who changed our world and whose legacy still has an impact on all of us today. Born a penniless backwoodsman, Princip’s life changed when he trekked through Bosnia and Serbia to attend school. As he ventured across fault lines of faith, nationalism and empire, so tightly clustered in the Balkans, radicalisation slowly transformed him from a frail farm boy into history’s most influential assassin. By retracing Princip’s journey from his highland birthplace, through the mythical valleys of Bosnia to the fortress city of Belgrade and ultimately Sarajevo, Tim Butcher illuminates our understanding both of Princip and the places that shaped him. Tim uncovers details about Princip that have eluded historians for a century and draws on his own experience, as a war reporter in the Balkans in the 1990s, to face down ghosts of conflicts past and present. The Trigger is a rich and timely work that brings to life both the moment the world first went to war and an extraordinary region with a potent hold over history.

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Original Title:	The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
ISBN:	070118793X (ISBN13: 9780701187934)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Gavrilo Princip

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Really not for me. I felt deceived by the title which suggests an examination of the life of Gavrilo Princip who assassinated Arch-duke Ferdinand leading to the outbreak of the First World War. I also expected some discussion of Serbian nationalism. There is some of that in this book - but in the main it is a travelogue of the author in the former Yugoslavia which I was not that interested in. Much of this was focused on personal experiences of the author.I have read Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas

For the past few years numerous books have been published dealing with aspects of the First World War. The plethora of books is due to the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that touched off events that resulted in the war to end all wars. Tim Butchers THE TRIGGER is part of slew of new publications, but it is not a traditional discussion of the causes of the war and who was most responsible for the debacle

I wasnt especially interested in the subject of this book, Gavrilo Princip, to begin with; I read it because I had been impressed by one of Tim Butchers earlier books, Blood River, an exciting and well-written account of a long and dangerous journey through Central Africa. Like Blood River, The Trigger is a mixture of history, travelogue and journalism a format Butcher does very well. It is just as good as Blood River, and I ended up being very interested in Princip indeed.The outline of the

I love a book which is highly readable but from which you learn new things. I learned so much from this book about Bosnia, the war in the Balkans in the 1990s, Sarajevo's history, and about the build up to WW1 - all of which I was very vague on before. Very worthwhile reading.

"The driver's decision to turn into Franz Joseph Street and not continue down the Appel Quay, as had been decided back at the town hall, was a stroke of assassin's luck for [Gavrilo] Princip. When General Potiorek spotted what was happening he shouted at the driver, ordering him immediately to stop and reverse back out onto the Appel Quay. Instead of his target speeding past, Princip saw the Archduke [Franz Ferdinand] slow right in front of him only a few feet away - the gallant count, so

A fascinating, impeccably researched, and beautifully written account of Gavrilo Princip. By retracing his journey from a small, impoverished village in Bosnia to a street in Sarajevo where he shot dead Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Butcher manages to recreate not only the man but the broader history that enabled two world wars and the bloody conflict in Bosnia. It is a far reaching and unflinching look at the instincts--noble and base--that drive our species.

Although I am not ordinarily interested in historical books, I found that this book proved to be a key explanation for the Archduke's assassination and how its misinterpretation started off WWI. Similarly to the way 9-11, an attack carried out by Saudis, caused the United States to attack Afghanistan, so Princip's dream of a pan-Slavian nation was falsely attributed to Serbian nationalism, and it led to countries facing off against each other for reasons other than the assassination (reasons,