By presenting a pseudo biography of Princip and following his route from his village in Serbia to Sarajevo the author uncovers new information that previous biographers and historians of World War I failed to uncover. The subtitle of the book, “Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War,” hints at what the author was trying to achieve. It is also a book that tries to explain how the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip resulted in the death of millions of people between 19 might be related to the slaughter that took place in Bosnia between 1992-1996. It is part travelogue through the battlefields of the Yugoslavian Civil War that dominated the 1990s in the Balkans. The plethora of books is due to the 100 th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that touched off events that resulted in the “war to end all wars.” Tim Butcher’s THE TRIGGER is part of slew of new publications, but it is not a traditional discussion of the causes of the war and who was most responsible for the debacle that followed. (Images from the Bosnian Serb siege of Sarajevo in 1995)įor the past few years numerous books have been published dealing with aspects of the First World War.
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