Assassination
Published on 24. January 2020
208 pages
978-1-84468-346-8 (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 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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Miles Hudson went into politics after a military career. He was Political Secretary to Sir Alec Douglas Home at the Foreign Office and Director of the Conservative Group for Europe during the 1975 Referendum campaign. He lives near Basingstoke.
Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Julius Caesar / Thomas à Becket
- 2. Mahatma Gandhi / Jesus Christ
- 3. Jean Paul Marat / Leon Trotsky
- 4. Lord Frederick Cavendish / Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- 5. Tsar Alexander II / Abraham Lincoln
- 6. Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson / Michael Collins
- 7. King Abdullah / Anwar Sadat / Yitzhak Rabin
- 8. Hendrik Verwoerd / Martin Luther King / Malcolm X
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
