Gavrilo Princip: The Teenager Who Started World War I
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Published 2020-11-11
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Source/Further reading:
Link to The Sleepwalkers, superlative book on the outbreak of WWI: www.amazon.com/Sleepwalkers-How-Europe-Went-1914/d…
Decent overview from the Telegraph (paywall): www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/inside-f…
Excellent dual overview of both Princip and Franz Ferdinand - lots of sources: www.thespec.com/news/world/2014/01/11/an-assassin-…
LRB: Overview and a rebuttal: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n20/mark-mazower/once-…
Christopher Clark on Tim Butcher’s Princip biography: www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/30/trigger-hunt…
New Statesman - Tim Butcher’s biography: www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2014/0…
History Today: www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/saraj…
Princip’s bio from the Bosnian side: www.inyourpocket.com/sarajevo/The-Boy-Behind-The-T…
Busting the sandwich myth: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gavrilo-princips-sa…
Geographics on Sarajevo (inc. facts on Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia): • Sarajevo: The City and the Siege
Biographics on Franz Ferdinand: • Franz Ferdinand: The Man Whose Death ...
History of Bosnia: www.britannica.com/place/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/Bo…
Bosnian Crisis: www.history.com/this-day-in-history/austria-hungar…
History of ethnic tensions in the Balkans: www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/read/understa…
History of Serbia: www.britannica.com/place/Serbia/The-disintegration…
Vranje training: books.google.cz/books?id=okMtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA265&lpg…
NPR, Princip’s shifting legacy: www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/06/27/32616415…
How Princip is seen today: balkaninsight.com/2014/05/08/sarajevo-assassin-s-g…
All Comments (21)
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Parents talk to your teens about starting world wars.
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To be fair, he just ignited the flare, there was fuel all over the place.
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Without a doubt this guy has to be one of the most influential people in history. When you think about it he's responsible for WW2, the decolonization of the empires and the modern history of the world today all because of what he had one. Created a butterfly effect
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“How quickly they forget that all it takes to change the course of history is the will of a single man.” - Captain Price
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Joker: "Look what I did with some gasoline and a few bullets." Gavrilo Princip: "Look at what I did with two bullets."
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Whoever decided to put colourful expression "vukojebina" in this video - you've made my day!!!!!
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He didn't just start WW1, he changed the whole world and history.
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The irony was that Franz Ferdinand had been keeping the Czar and Kaiser speaking to each other, he was tireless in his attempts to keep the peace. His death not only sparked the war it took out the one senior member of the European elite who realised the catastrophic consequences of a European war.
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Gavrilo Princip: So anyway I started blasting
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Hell of a butterfly effect
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I have a friend whose parents met during the Bosnian Civil War (I was never told whose side they ended up on, but they're genuinely good people). Her dad took a couple rounds and some shrapnel and her mom happened to be working at the medical station he ended up at. She took the metal out, they eventually got married and moved to the US, been together ever since.
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The animosity was growing for decades. He didn't start WWI - he triggered it!
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The teenager who inadvertently created anime.
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Teens in 2020: we are great in COD Teens in 1914: Hold my beer, go on to start WW1
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Really interesting story, and I love Simon’s delivery. His voice and cadence are both soothing and impactful at the same time.
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This guy is the embodiment of "you're never too small to make a difference" but in a negative way.
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Gavrilo Princip was the catalyst for a conflict that was decades in the making.
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It's amazing that a boy shot a prince and destroyed 3 empires.
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When people talk of grand conspiracies as the only way that world shattering events come to pass, I’m reminded of this: a young, penniless teenager and a few friends, fed up with Imperial oppression, armed with a couple of guns and homemade bombs, changed the entire world. Two shots from the gun of a 19 year old, fundamentally changed everything. And THAT is both powerful, and terrifying.
