Day of the assassins (Record no. 345922)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781529030143
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 364.1524 BUR
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Burleigh, Michael
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Day of the assassins
Remainder of title a history of political murder
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Picador
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2021
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 429p.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. The traditional image of a political assassin is a lone wolf with a gun, aimed squarely at the head of those they wish to kill. But while there has been enormous speculation on what lay behind notorious individual political assassinations – from Gaius Julius Caesar to John F. Kennedy – the phenomenon itself has scarcely been examined as a special category of political violence, one not motivated by personal gain or vengeance.<br/><br/>Now, in Day of the Assassins, acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh explores the many facets of political assassination, explaining the role of historical precedent, why it is more frequent in certain types of society than others and asking if assassination can either bring about change, or prevent it, and whether, like a contagious disease, political murder can be catching. Focusing chiefly on the last century and a half, Burleigh takes readers to the Congo, India, Iran, Laos, Rwanda and South Africa and revisits notable assassinations in Europe, Russia, Israel and the United States.<br/><br/>Throughout, the assassins themselves are at the centre of the narrative, whether they were cool, well-trained professional killers, like the agents of the NKVD or the KGB, or men motivated by the politicization of their private miseries. Even some of those who were demonstrably mad had method in the madness and acted for comprehensible political motives.<br/><br/>Combining human drama, questions of political morality and the sheer randomness of events, Day of the Assassins is a riveting insight into the politics of violence.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Assassination; Presidents--Assassination.
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  Not Missing Not Damaged   Gandhi Smriti Library Gandhi Smriti Library 2021-12-24 1 364.1524 BUR 163858 2022-03-12 2022-02-02 2021-12-24 Books

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