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Author:

Butcher, Tim, 1967-

Title:

The trigger : hunting the assassin who brought the world to war / Tim Butcher.

Publisher:

Grove Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xxii, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Princip, Gavrilo,--1894-1918.
Franz Ferdinand,--Archduke of Austria,--1863-1914--Assassination.
Butcher, Tim,--1967---Travel--Bosnia and Hercegovina.
Nationalism--Yugoslavia.
Assassins--Bosnia and Hercegovina--Biography.
World War, 1914-1918--Causes.
Serbs--Bosnia and Hercegovina--Biography.
Bosnia and Hercegovina--History.
Balkan Peninsula--History.
Bosnia and Hercegovina--Description and travel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-311) and index.

Contents:

Fresh flotsam -- A troublesom teenager -- The wild west -- Over tent mountain -- Fishing in a minefield -- Rocking Bosnia -- The fall of Gabriel -- Fin-de-sïcle chat rooms -- Arming the trigger -- An assassin's luck -- More than one shadow.

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.

ISBN:

0802123252 (hbk.)
9780802123251 (hbk.)

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

JLPF081 -- Ericson Public Library (Boone)

NCPC953 -- Buffalo Center Public Library (Buffalo Center)

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

UUAX975 -- Briar Cliff University - Mueller Library (Sioux City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)