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

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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
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
Illustrations
mapsillustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The trigger
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
868648923
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-siecle chat rooms -- A mystical journey -- Arming the trigger -- An assassin's luck -- More than one shadow
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