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Day of the assassins : a history of political murder / Michael Burleigh.

by Burleigh, Michael, 1955-

364.152409 B961d

Assassination -- History.

Assassins -- History.

Presidents -- Assassination -- History.

9781529030143 (pbk.)

xv, 429 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-399) and index.

"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. Throughout, the assassins themselves are at the centre of the narrative, whether they were well-trained professional killers, like the agents of the NKVD or the KGB, or, indeed, the CIA - or men motivated by the politicization of their private miseries, like Gavrilo Princip or Lee Harvery Oswald. Even some o0f those who were demonstrably mad had method in their madness and acted for comprehensible political motives."

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