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Assassins - Assassinations That Shook the World from Julius Caesar to JFK (Hardcover)
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Assassins - Assassinations That Shook the World from Julius Caesar to JFK (Hardcover)
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Price R346
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The killing of holders of high office for a predetermined political
or ideological purpose is a practice as old as power politics
itself. Assassins tells the darkly sensational story of twenty
centuries of political murder, from the Roman era to the present.
It includes accounts of many of the most infamous assassinations in
history, from the slaying of Julius Caesar in 44 BC to the shooting
of President Kennedy in 1963. Drawing on the latest research, Dr
Steven Parissien presents a richly entertaining sequence of
case-studies of this, the ultimate method of regime change. Each
elegantly written essay includes not only a gripping account of the
assassination, its political context and consequences, but also a
biographical profile of both the slayer and the slain. Assassins
runs the full gamut of murderous methods and motivations - from
multiple stabbing to suicide bombing to aerial attack, from
dynastic overthrow to religious fanaticism to the 'propaganda of
the deed'. Sometimes shocking, but always involving and
informative, it offers a dramatic and distinctive perspective on
more than two millennia of world history.
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