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Tim Butcher (born 15 November 1967) is an English author, broadcaster and journalist. He is the author of Blood River (2007), Chasing the Devil (2010) and The Trigger (2014), travel books blending contemporary adventure with history.
Tim Butcher. Author, Adventurer, Public Speaker. Latest Book. Tim Butcher unravels the greatest historical turning point of our age: how a teenager on a Sarajevo street corner fired the starting gun for modern history. `A masterpiece of historical empathy and evocation… This book is a tour de force’ Guardian.
Biography. Turning-point stories are what drive bestselling author Tim Butcher, historical stories so potent they still resonate today. With meticulous research both on the ground and in the archives, he has created a series of books lauded for their originality and clarity, shaping a fresh literary genre that straddles travel-writing, history ...
Jun 9, 2015 · Tim Butcher is a British best-selling author and explorer whose books blend history with travel. His latest, The Trigger, tells the story of the young man who sparked the First World War a hundred years ago by shooting dead Archduke Franz Ferdinand on a street corner in Sarajevo.
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Jun 9, 2015 · Retracing Princip’s steps from the feudal frontier village of his birth to the great plain city of Belgrade and ultimately Sarajevo, journalist and bestselling author Tim Butcher makes discoveries about the assassin that have eluded historians for a hundred years.
Jul 25, 2020 · Goodreads Librarians Group. Tim Butcher is a best-selling British author, journalist and broadcaster. Born in 1967, he was on the staff of The Daily Telegraph from 1990 to 2009, cov...
“The Trigger is a fascinating study of one of those rare individuals whose act of violence changed the history of the world. An incisive, shrewd, wholly compelling investigation of an assassin’s life and times.’’
