Death to Order. A Modern History of Assassination

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Author
Simon Ball
Cover
Hardback
ISBN
9780300258042
Pages
464
Publisher
Yale University Press
Weight
1kg
Dimensions
24 * 17 * 4cm
Language
English
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A deeply researched history of assassination in the modern world, from Franz Ferdinand to Osama bin Laden

Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Leon Trotsky, Reinhard Heydrich, Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Indira Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto, Osama bin Laden, Qasem Soleimani: assassination—the murder of a specific individual by an organised conspiracy in pursuit of political ends—has rarely failed to grip the imagination.

In this incisive new history, Simon Ball shows how targeted political murder has become a tool of democratic states but also a key strategy of those who wish to topple them.

Ball introduces us to the techniques of assassination and those who wield them, as well as the security regimes that have developed to prevent this violent practice. From the First World War and the age of empire to terrorism and the development of pilotless drones, Death to Order places assassination at the heart of modern political history—and shows how it continues to impact our world.

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Author
Simon Ball
Cover
Hardback
ISBN
9780300258042
Pages
464
Publisher
Yale University Press
Weight
1kg
Dimensions
24 * 17 * 4cm
Language
English
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