The trigger
Subtitle: hunting the assassin who brought the world to war
By: Tim Butcher
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780802123251
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Assassins; Description and travel; Serbs; Travel; Assassination; Biography; Nationalism; Causes; History
Description: "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.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain in 2014 by Chatto & Windus"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-311) and index.