
Assassination
Miles Hudson(Author)
Pen & Sword Military (Publisher)
Published on 20. February 2011
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-1-84884-363-9 (ISBN)
Description
The assassination of political, religious and military leaders, often dictators, is frequently seen as the short cut to solving a particular problem. The author takes issue with this argument. Examining a series of linked assassinations together with their causes and effects, he seeks to demonstrate that in many cases the killings have produced unforeseen and unintended consequences that all too often result in the opposite result to that desired. His case studies, arranged intriguingly in pairs, cover such diverse characters as Julius Caesar and Thomas a Becket, Gandhi and Jesus Christ, Tsar Alexander II and Abraham Lincoln, Michael Collins and Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, and Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.This is an absorbing, controversial and informative study.
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Language
English
Place of publication
South Yorkshire
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Illustrations
8pp B & W plates
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84884-363-9 (9781848843639)
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