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Terrorist: Gavrilo Princip, the Assassin Who Ignited World War I (Fiction - Young Adult)
Terrorist Gavrilo Princip the Assassin Who Ignited World War I - Fiction - Young Adult Author:Henrik Rehr This much we know: On June 28, 1914, a young man stood on a street corner in Sarajevo, aimed a pistol into a stalled car carrying the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and pulled the trigger. Within a few minutes, the archduke was dead, and Europe would not know peace again for five years. More than 16 million people would die in the fighting... more » that came to be known as World War I. Little else is known about the young man named Gavrilo Princep. How could a poor student from a tiny Serbian village turn the wheel of history and alter the face of a continent for generations? Henrik Rehr's dark and riveting graphic novel fills the gaps in the historical record and imagines in insightful detail the events that led a boy from Oblej to become history's most significant terrorist.« less