History's Assassins
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History's Assassins

Motives for Murder

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eBook - ePub

History's Assassins

Motives for Murder

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A fact-based book that highlights political assassins in history. The book includes the stories of the assassins rather than just their famous victims. The book dissects selected political assassinations and and why the assassins acted; detail stheir political goals, addresses why they chose the methods they chose, and describes the ultimate outcome of the assassination. In many cases, the assassinations were not effective and actually worked against the stated goals of the assassins. People of questionable sanity and cases where the act was strictly personal are not included. For the more modern subjects, there is supporting documentation with detailed accounts written at the time in question. However, with some of the historic cases, specifics on methodology, coconspirators, etc. are not well known or there are conflicting accounts. In such cases, reasoned dramatizations tare used o ensure the stories are entertaining to the reader as well as educational.The book is organized chronologically with examples from Ancient Persia and Rome and ending with several of the 19th and 20th Centuries' high profile assassinations. The assassins and the victims are representative of men and women, and eastern and western civilizations.

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Publisher
Skyhorse
Year
2023
ISBN
9781510771727
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Prologue
  7. Chapter 1 Brutus, the Senate, and Caesar
  8. Chapter 2 Cassius Chaerea, the Senate, and Caligula
  9. Chapter 3 Charlotte Corday and Jean-Paul Marat
  10. Chapter 4 John Wilkes Booth and Lincoln
  11. Chapter 5 Peopleā€™s Will and Tsar Alexander II
  12. Chapter 6 The Black Hand, Gavrilo Princip, and Archduke Franz Ferdinand
  13. Chapter 7 Mercader, Stalin, and Leon Trotsky
  14. Chapter 8 The Czechoslovak Resistance and Reinhard Heydrich
  15. Chapter 9 Nathuram Godse and Mahatma Gandhi