Assassinations that Changed the World

This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
Buy on Amazon Buy on Waterstones.com
*This page contains affiliate links, so we may earn a small commission when you make a purchase through links on our site at no additional cost to you.
Send NetGalley books directly to your Kindle or Kindle app

1
To read on a Kindle or Kindle app, please add kindle@netgalley.com as an approved email address to receive files in your Amazon account. Click here for step-by-step instructions.
2
Also find your Kindle email address within your Amazon account, and enter it here.
Pub Date 5 Jan 2021 | Archive Date 4 Jan 2021

Talking about this book? Use #AssassinationsThatChangedTheWorld #NetGalley. More hashtag tips!


Description

We live in an age of asymmetric warfare. Huge armies no longer face each other on the battlefield. Instead heads of major powers and lone assassins (or martyrs) target each other to pursue their agendas.

President Donald Trump felt it necessary to use drones to blow away the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Qasem Soleimani-a mastermind of terrorism in the Middle East who threatened the lives of US troops-and President Barack Obama felt fully justified in sending in US Navy SEALs to take out Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. This is the nature of modern warfare. And it is only going to get worse.

When nineteen-year-old Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, in 1914, he triggered the First World War. Few assassinations have had such devastating consequences, but political assassinations have always changed the world – often in ways that the assassins and their cohorts could not have predicted.

The murder of John F. Kennedy left Lyndon B. Johnson free to escalate the war in Vietnam. However, the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. while not derailing the demands for African American civil rights in the US, did lead many to abandoning his commitment to nonviolence and adopting more radical means.

In a world globalized by social media, more lone-wolf assassins seek their fifteen minutes of fame by taking out a famous figure, while leaders of world powers have everything to gain by decapitating terrorist organizations, employing the latest surveillance technology to obliterate their leaders.

There are forty-eight assassinations that changed the world in this book. Rest assured that in the coming years we will see many more.

We live in an age of asymmetric warfare. Huge armies no longer face each other on the battlefield. Instead heads of major powers and lone assassins (or martyrs) target each other to pursue their...


Available Editions

EDITION Other Format
ISBN 9781913543860
PRICE US$15.95 (USD)

Available on NetGalley

NetGalley Shelf App (PDF)
Send to Kindle (PDF)

Average rating from 18 members


Featured Reviews

My student loves your books so much you did such an amazing job writing this. Thank you so much for helping my students and i during this pandemic!

Was this review helpful?

I was attracted to this book because of certain of the figures I knew were featured, and I was even more interested after I received it and saw other assassinations in the book, like Benazir Bhutto and Malcolm X, both figures whom I greatly admire. I was intrigued to read about Jamal Khashoggi's death, for he was a well known journalist in Saudi Arabia while I was a puny little freelancer in Saudi Arabia trying to make a buck to buy toys for my kids. I had not known that the dissident's grandfather, Mohammad Khaled Khashoggi was personal physician to King Ibn Saud, the founder of Saudi Arabia. Of course everyone has heard of Adnan Khashoggi, the billionaire arms dealer who was the middleman in the Iran-Contra scandal in the 80s and a neighbor of Donald Trump. If you're interested in who-knows-who, this book gives a lot of that kind of information, and I am still talking about the grandfather Mohammad's daughter Samira having married Mohamed Al-Fayed. Who knew that Jamal Khashoggi was first cousin to Dodi Al Fayed? If your friends are into who's who, pick your assassinated person and you can drop little known tidbits into the conversation. There is no particular chronology to this compendium of interesting assassinated individuals, but I found enough of my own interests to make it well worth the read.#AssassinationsThatChangedTheWorld #NetGalley

Was this review helpful?

It is a history book that strings together epic events where one group of humans exterminated a person who was good or bad or controversial for their own interests or misplaced faiths.
It tells stories of big assassinations in a movie like easily graspable prose. It describes 48 assassination over 10 centuries with accompanying circumstances, backgrounds and aftermaths.
It starts from 2019 and runs backwards. It would have been Even more intriguing if it contained pictures.
It has wide base and almost all main countries appear in the book.
It is a cohesive presentation of all events that unfold around these acts which sometimes appear correct and most of the times wrong.
But these happen all the time even if we stop counting them.
I could connect with recent events more clearly than very old ones.
A very readable and informative book that is easily recommend.

Was this review helpful?

This book was a provocative look inside the assassinations of our beloved leaders who could of changed the world for the better and did change the world in some way . Very good book

Was this review helpful?

this book was really informative and well-written, you could tell that the author knew what they were talking about. It was a really interesting read.

Was this review helpful?

Readers who liked this book also liked: