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Gavrilo Princip – history’s ultimate teenage tearaway

A review of The Trigger, by Tim Butcher. A triumphant and original account of the man who shot the Archduke

The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (Le Petit Journal, 12 July 1914)
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    Tim Butcher

    Chatto, pp. 308

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