| Description |
xxii, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-311) and index. |
| Contents |
Fresh flotsam -- A troublesome teenager -- The wild West -- Over Tent Mountain -- Fishing in a minefield -- Rocking Bosnia -- The fall of Gabriel -- Fin-de-siècle chat rooms -- A mystical journey -- 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."--Publisher's description. |
| Subject |
Princip, Gavrilo, 1894-1918.
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Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, 1863-1914 -- Assassination.
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Butcher, Tim, 1967- -- Travel -- Bosnia and Hercegovina.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina -- History.
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Nationalism -- Yugoslavia.
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Assassins -- Bosnia and Hercegovina -- Biography.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Causes.
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Serbs -- Bosnia and Hercegovina -- Biography.
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Balkan Peninsula -- History.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Description and travel.
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| ISBN |
9780802123251 (hbk.) : $26.00 |
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0802123252 (hbk.) : $26.00 |
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9780802191885 (eISBN) |
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