How WWI was sparked by Princip among men

The Trigger

**Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War**

**By** Tim Butcher

**Chatto & Windus,** €17

**Reviewed by** Brendan Daly

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Just after 10.45am on Sunday, June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, were assassinated by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, unleashing a domino effect that sparked the First World War. In contrast to the avalanche of literature chronicling the ensuing conflict, ...