Day of the Assassins

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Beschreibung

<p><b>'Written with Burleigh's characteristic brio, with pithy summaries of historical moments (he is brilliant on the Americans in Vietnam, for example) and full of surprising vignettes' - </b><i>The Times </i>'Book of the Week'<br><br><b>'Brilliant and timely . . . Our world today is as dangerous and mixed-up as it has ever been. Luckily we have Michael Burleigh to help us make sense of it.' - </b><i>Mail on Sunday</i><br><br>In <i>Day of the Assassins</i>, acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh examines assassination as a special category of political violence and asks whether, like a contagious disease, it can be catching.<br><br>Focusing chiefly on the last century and a half, Burleigh takes readers from Europe, Russia, Israel and the United States to the Congo, India, Iran, Laos, Rwanda, South Africa and Vietnam. And, as we travel, we revisit notable assassinations, among them Leon Trotsky, Hendrik Verwoerd, Juvénal Habyarimana, Indira Gandhi, Yitzhak Rabin and Jamal Khashoggi.<br><br>Combining human drama, questions of political morality and the sheer randomness of events, <i>Day of the Assassins</i> is a riveting insight into the politics of violence.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781529030174

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

194 x 128 x 30 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Pan MacMillan