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. 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. It focuses on the drama of the incident itself by following Princip's journey. The Trigger tells the story of a young man who changed the world forever. 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 19 and that proved fatal for empires and a way of ruling that had held for centuries. 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. In this riveting, well-written book, award-winning author Tim Butcher tells the story of the young man who sparked the First World War by shooting dead Archduke Franz Ferdinand on a street corner in Sarajevo.
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