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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Gardners Books
Publication date
May 1, 2014
Pages
352
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780701187941
ISBN-10
0701187948
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$25.35
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
Heart of Europe | The Origins of the First and Second World Wars | Man's Search for Meaning | 1984 | One Morning in Sarajevo | Blood River | Man's Search for Meaning | The Assassination of the Archduke | Animal Farm
Heart of Europe | The Origins of the First and Second World Wars | Man's Search for Meaning | 1984 | One Morning in Sarajevo | Blood River | Man's Search for Meaning | The Assassination of the Archduke | Animal Farm
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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.
The Trigger tells the story of a young man who changed the world forever. It focuses on the drama of the incident itself by following Prinipâs journey. By retracing his 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, Tim Butcher illuminates our understanding of Principâ the person and the place that shaped himâand makes discoveries about him that have eluded historians for a hundred years. Traveling through the Balkans on Principâs trail, 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, and shows how the events that were sparked that day in June 1914 still have influence today. Published for the centenary of the assassination, The Trigger is a rich and timely work, part travelogue, part reportage, and part history.
The Trigger tells the story of a young man who changed the world forever. It focuses on the drama of the incident itself by following Prinipâs journey. By retracing his 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, Tim Butcher illuminates our understanding of Principâ the person and the place that shaped himâand makes discoveries about him that have eluded historians for a hundred years. Traveling through the Balkans on Principâs trail, 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, and shows how the events that were sparked that day in June 1914 still have influence today. Published for the centenary of the assassination, The Trigger is a rich and timely work, part travelogue, part reportage, and part history.
Editions
Hardcover
from Grove Pr (June 3, 2014)
9780802123251 | details & prices | 326 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $26.00
Paperback
from Vintage Uk (July 2, 2015)
9780099581338 | details & prices | 352 pages | List price $16.45
from Grove Pr (June 9, 2015)
9780802123893 | details & prices | 326 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.76 lbs | List price $16.00
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from Gardners Books (May 1, 2014)
9780701187941 | details & prices | 352 pages | List price $25.35
About: 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.
About: 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.
CD/Spoken Word
With Gerard Doyle (other contributor) |
Mp3 una edition from Tantor Media Inc (June 12, 2014)
9781494553012 | details & prices | 5.40 × 7.50 × 0.60 in. | 0.20 lbs | List price $29.99
About: 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.
About: 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.
With Gerard Doyle (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Tantor Media Inc (June 12, 2014)
9781494533014 | details & prices | 6.75 × 6.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.64 lbs | List price $83.99
About: 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.
About: 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.
With Gerard Doyle (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Tantor Media Inc (June 12, 2014)
9781494503017 | details & prices | 5.45 × 6.45 × 1.10 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $39.99
About: 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.
About: 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.
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