The Trigger (38 page)

Owen, Wilfred, 10

Pappenheim, Dr Martin: background and relationship with GP, 186; on GP in prison, 282, 283; notes on GP’s assassination plans, 251, 270; notes on GP’s education, 193; notes on GP’s motives, 198, 249; notes on GP’s radicalisation, 202; notes on GP’s rejection by Serbian army, 240–1

Pasić plain, 41, 64, 75, 85

Peace March (Marš Mira), 221–5, 231

Petrović, Stefan, 259–60

Pobudje, 225–7

Popović, Cvetko, 269, 279, 274, 278–81

Popović, Vojin see Vuk, Vojvoda

Potiorek, General Oskar, 251, 275, 276

Princip, Bosiljka (GP’s sister), 57

Princip, Branko (GP’s brother), 57

Princip, Djuradj (GP’s brother), 57

Princip, Gavrilo (GP)

general: appearance, 63, 136, 185–6, 257, 280; character, 192–4; favourite reading, 193, 199; name’s origins, 50, 61; role in starting First World War, 15; sources, 16–17

life: overview of background and beliefs, 17–19; family history, 47–58; birthplace, 42–3, 45, 61–2, 68; parents and siblings, 45, 57–9; birth and childhood, 58, 60–7, 74–5; migrates to Sarajevo to go to school, 24–5, 133, 156–7, 167–81; love interest, 193–4; radicalisation, 25–7, 102–3, 185–203; financial means, 197; travels to Belgrade, 211; life in Belgrade, 26–7, 203, 237–47; tries without success to enlist in Serb army, 240–1; motives, 17, 19, 67–8, 247–50; Franz Ferdinand assassination plot, 27–8, 251–5, 268–70; involvement with Black Hand, 253–5; fellow conspirators, 18–19, 113–14, 252, 268–9; journey to Sarajevo for the assassination, 27–8, 255–62; Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, 15, 19, 270–7; arrest and questioning, 277–9; police report, 102; trial, 102–3, 201–2, 279–81; escapes execution, 176, 280; imprisonment and death, 24, 281–3; overview of real story, 293–7; tomb, xvii–xviii, 15–16, 295–7; memorials, 208; surviving relatives, 44–6; reputation now, 88, 136–8, 138–9, 250, 259–60

Princip, Gavrilo Mile (GP’s family descendant): appearance and background, 44; on Princip family history, 44–5, 49, 58–60, 74–5; on GP, 58, 64, 66, 67, 74–5; directs author to Bugojno, 46–7; reads aloud own poetry, 65; escorts author towards Bugojno, 69, 73–7, 81–6; on Bosnian War and effects, 79–80

Princip, Ilija (GP’s uncle), 57

Princip, Jovo (GP’s brother): appearance, 185; age relative to GP, 62–3; moves to near Sarajevo, 66; encourages GP to go to school there, 66, 170; financial support for GP, 197; GP lives with temporarily, 242–3; GP’s last visit to, 270

Princip, Koviljka (GP’s sister), 57

Princip, Marija (Nana; GP’s mother): background, 58–9; appearance and character, 62, 63; GP’s birth, 60–1; on GP, 64; encourages him to go to school in Sarajevo, 66; jailed after Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, 68; on GP’s date of birth, 176; later life, 68; death and tomb, 59

Princip, Mika (GP’s family descendant), 44, 67–8

Princip, Miljkan (GP’s family descendant): appearance, 44, 61; on Princip family history, 45, 48, 50, 53; on local railways, 46; on GP, 67

Princip, Nikola (GP’s brother), 63, 185

Princip, Nikola (GP’s family descendant): appearance, 44, 63; on Princip family history, 50, 53, 57, 61–2; on GP, 61–2, 64, 67

Princip, Novak (GP’s family descendant), 47

Princip, Petar (Pepo; GP’s father): background, 58; appearance and character, 63; rebels against Ottomans, 53; postal work, 62; reluctant for GP to go to school in Sarajevo, 66; escorts him there, 24; jailed after Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, 68; later life, 68; tomb, 59

Princip, Vuk (GP’s family descendant), 45, 85

radicalism, 19th and early 20th centuries, 187–92

railways, 129

Red Baron see Richthofen, Baron Manfred von

religion: and Balkan national identity, 47–8; in Bosnia, 51–3, 103–10, 114; in Sarajevo, 164–5, 168–9, 175, 177, 197, 204–5; see also Christianity; Islam; Jews

Remarque, Erich Maria, 10–11

Ribar, Ivo-Lola, 122, 124, 125

Richthofen, Baron Manfred von (the Red Baron), 8

Roma Gypsies, 244, 259

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 120

Roth, Joseph, 25

Royal Marines, 141

Rudolf, Crown Prince, 267

Rugby school, 6

Russia, 196, 239, 288

Šabac, 253, 255, 259–61

Sadilo, Angela, 279, 281

St Vitus’s Day, 268

Sapna Thumb, 219–20

Šarac, Djuro, 246–7

Sarajevo: Appel Quay, 167, 271–2, 273–6, 291–3; attitude to Serbs, 16; Baščaršija, 204–7; during Bosnian War, xvii–xx, 16, 155–6, 289–90, 291–2; ethnic and religious mix, 164–5, 168–9, 175, 177, 197, 204–5; Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, 15, 19, 270–7; Franz Ferdinand’s visit, 265–8; GP memorials, 208; in GP’s day, 203–8; GP’s life in, 24, 25–6, 167–81, 192–4, 199–200; GP’s tomb, xvii–xviii, 15–16, 295–7; High Gymnasium, 179–81; Historical Archives, 173–4; history and geography, 163–7; Hotel Europe, 206; Irby’s tomb, 54; Latin Bridge, 164–5, 292; Merchants’ School, 170–1, 175–9, 207; Miljacka River, 163, 166–7, 291; National Archive of Bosnia, 290–1; National Museum, 173; New Sarajevo military barracks, 290; Oprkanj Street, 206–7; present day, 163, 203–8, 290–7; radical politics in early 20th century, 190, 199–202; Skenderija district, 172; town hall/National Library, 291–2

Šator, Forest of, 73, 85–94

Šator, Mount (Tent Mountain), 46–7, 53, 85–94

Sava River, 258–9, 260

Second Balkan War (1913), 247

Second World War (1939–45), 115–25, 138–9

Senad (Muslim leader), 228

Serbia: Bosnian Serbs, 48, 49, 53–4, 60; Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian War, 77–81, 106, 108, 110, 138–9, 164, 212–34; cultural self-education, 64–5; and First World War, 12, 288; and Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, 27, 255, 278, 279; geography and politics, 26–7, 203; GP lives in, 26–7, 203, 237–47; and Habsburg annexation of Bosnia, 195, 196, 198, 238–9; history, 18, 23, 26, 48, 52, 195, 196, 203, 237–40, 268; nationalism, 238–40, 247–50; Old Serbia, 239–40; Sarajevan attitude to Serbs, 16; Serbs and religion, 47–8; Serbs and Second World War, 116, 119–20

silver mining, 212

Sitwell, Edith, 191

Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg: background and marriage, 267–8; Sarajevo visit, 265, 268, 272–3, 275; death, 275, 276–7, 279; tomb, 289

Srebrenica, 28–9, 212–34, 249–50, 256–7

Stadler, Josip, Archbishop of Sarajevo, 270

Stalin, Joseph, 25, 120

Strbci, 77

Stupni Do, 106

Taraba, Drago, 147, 149

Taraba, Marija, 147–9

Taraba, Marinko, 148

Taylor, A. J. P., 13, 14–15

Tehran Conference (1943), 120–1

Tent Mountain see Šator, Mount

Theresienstadt, 281–3

Thomas, Edward, 10

Tito, Marshal: rise to power and regime, 28, 114–22, 134–6; and hunting, 32, 126–7; mausoleum, 253

Tokmić, Kemal, 110–12, 113–15

tombstones, 222

Torrund, Jassy, 199

Travnik, 97, 142

Trotsky, Leon, 25, 191

Turkey, 14, 188; see also Ottoman Empire

Tuzla: author visits, 212; and Bosnian War, 219, 233; Franz Ferdinand conspirators rendezvous at, 256, 257; GP at school in, 26, 179

Udrč, Mount, 219, 228

UN: peacekeeping in Bosnian War, 108–9, 155, 214–15, 217, 218

Union or Death see Black Hand

USA, 12

Ustaše, 125, 139

Varešanin, General Marijan, 199–201

Vienna, 50, 83, 288–9

Višegrad, 51

Vitez, 106, 145–9, 150–1

Vrbas River, 129, 133, 135

Vuk, Vojvoda (Vojin Popović), 246, 247

Vukosava (GP’s love interest), 193–4

walking sticks, 75–6

Waugh, Evelyn, 62

Weber, Max, 13

Wells, Fred, 5

West, Rebecca, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: on Bosnian minarets, 128; on Drina River area, 211; on Herzegovina, 73–4; on Jajce, 135; overview, 29–30; on Sarajevo, 167, 169–70, 205

Whetherly, Robin, 125

wolves, 32, 64, 75, 101

World War I see First World War

World War II see Second World War

Young Bosnia (Mlada Bosna), 18–19, 188–92, 198–201, 250, 274, 279

Young Turks, 188

Yugoslavia: under communism and Tito, 28, 114–16, 135–6; establishment, xx; etymology, 248; and GP’s aims, 247–50, 280–1; in Second World War, 115–25; West’s travels in, 29–30, 73–4, 128, 135, 167, 169–70, 205, 211; see also individual countries by name

zadruga system, 63, 105

Zagreb, 191

Zaim (checkpoint attendant), 95–6, 98

Zaimović, Haris, 174

Žerajić, Bogdan, 200–2, 270, 296

Table of Contents

Half Title

By The Same Author

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Copyright

Maps

Note On Pronunciation

Chapter 8 Fin-de-siècle Chat Rooms

Chapter 11 An Assassin’s Luck

Notes and Bibliography