A review by sharon_geitz
The Trigger: The Hunt for Gavrilo Princip - the Assassin who Brought the World to War by Tim Butcher

4.0

Interesting read, hard to classify in some ways. A book as much about the Bosnian / Serbian conflicts of the 1990s as about Gavrilo Princip and the circumstances that lead to his assassination of the Archduke and the triggering of the First world war. Part history, part war memoir, part travel memoir. An examination of nationalism and its dangers, a cautionary tale. Interesting, insightful read.