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.
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