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

Butcher, Tim

ISBN 10: 0802123252 / ISBN 13: 9780802123251

Edité par 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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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: THE TRIGGER: Hunting The Assassin Who Brought The World To War
• Éditeur: NY. 2014. Grove Press
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0802123252
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780802123251
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • world war i
  • conspiracy theory
  • biography

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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.