Berlin

Di. 10.06.2014, 19:00 bis 20:30

Vortrag

The Trigger of the First World War

Landesvertretung Hessen
In den Ministergärten 5
10117 Berlin
Berlin Brandenburg

Beschreibung:

On a summer morning in Sarajevo a hundred years ago, a teenage assassin named Gavrilo Princip fired not just the opening shots of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history, when he killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Yet the events Princip triggered were so monumental that his own story has been largely overlooked, his role garbled and motivations misrepresented. Tim Butcher will share the results of years of research, including the discovery of Princip papers missed by a century of historians, to fill out as never before the assassin who changed all of our lives.

Tim Butcher is a best-selling author who blends travel with history. His first book, Blood River, was a number one bestseller, a Richard & Judy Book Club selection and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, while his next, Chasing the Devil, was longlisted for the George Orwell Prize. A journalist with the Daily Telegraph from 1990 to 2009, he was awarded the 2013 Mungo Park Medal for exploration by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. In 2010 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Northampton for services to writing. Born in Great Britain, he is based in Cape Town with his family.

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