The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War

from douboy50

I really liked this book! It developed into a saga I had not expected. Not only does the author cover the life and times of Gavrilo Princip, he also deals with the geography of the Balkans, some of its politics, its history. In a relatively short book the author adequately covers a great deal of ...

from spounds

This book really affected me. It's written by a British journalist who decides to follow the footsteps--literally--of Gavriel Princip from his boyhood home to his assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. He hikes across the country writing part travelogue, part history book. To add another layer, he ...

from Castlelass

This book is equal parts biography, memoir, history, and travelogue. Tim Butcher travels Gavrilo Princip's path from a small village in Herzegovina to Sarajevo to Belgrade and back to Sarajevo, where Princip fired the shots that took the life of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in 1914. This...

from douboy50

I really liked this book! It developed into a saga I had not expected. Not only does the author cover the life and times of Gavrilo Princip, he also deals with the geography of the Balkans, some of its politics, its history. In a relatively short book the author adequately covers a great deal of ...

from spounds

This book really affected me. It's written by a British journalist who decides to follow the footsteps--literally--of Gavriel Princip from his boyhood home to his assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. He hikes across the country writing part travelogue, part history book. To add another layer, he ...