The trigger : hunting the assassin who brought the world to war / Tim Butcher.
2014
D511 .B876 2014 (Mapit)
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Title
The trigger : hunting the assassin who brought the world to war / Tim Butcher.
Author
ISBN
9780802123251 hardcover
0802123252 hardcover
0802123252 hardcover
Published
New York, NY : Grove Press, 2014.
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
xxii, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
D511 .B876 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
940.311
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-311) and index.
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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-siècle chat rooms
A mystical journey
Arming the trigger
An assassin's luck
More than one shadow.
A troublesome teenager
The wild West
Over Tent Mountain
Fishing in a minefield
Rocking Bosnia
The fall of Gabriel
Fin-de-siècle chat rooms
A mystical journey
Arming the trigger
An assassin's luck
More than one shadow.