465. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Killer (Part 1)

“Both of us have read a brilliant book called The Trigger by Tim Butcher, who was a war correspondent here in Sarajevo during the civil wars.”

“Tim Butcher suggests in his book, by the Ottomans, as is often the case with a lot of Bosnian Serbs, been settled by the Ottomans to form a kind of buffer against the Catholic Habsburg Empire.”

“I guess Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment. The ambitious young man going to Petersburg who has yearnings to be something and then finds it not possible.”

“Vladimir Dedio in his book, The Road to Sarajevo, tells a story about Gavrilo Princip and his brother's experience with a Muslim innkeeper.”

“Christopher Clarke in the introduction to Sleepwalkers makes a point about the pre-war world and its familiarity to modern events.”

“Gavrilo Princip loved reading and specifically loved Oscar Wilde.”

“Gavrilo Princip loved reading and also loves Alexandre Dumas.”

“Gavrilo Princip loved reading and loves Sherlock Holmes.”

“Gavrilo Princip loved reading and loves Walter Scott.”

“The excerpt mentions a piece of writing that anyone who has fancied themselves as being good at writing in English will recognize, quite Adrian Mole.”

“Gavrilo Princip was reading Oscar Wilde, indicating his literary influences.”

“Gavrilo Princip was reading Kropotkin and other anarchist books, indicating his political influences.”

“Gavrilo Princip read William Morris, suggesting his exposure to various political and artistic ideas.”

“Reference to the recurring figure of the young man who takes his own life throughout the 19th century, as seen in many novels and poems.”

“A very famous underground poem that became a bestseller among Gavrilo Princip and his friends, stating that Zerich must be a model for all young men.”