Assassination - Couverture rigide

Hudson, Miles

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0750919663 ISBN 13 : 9780750919661

Editeur : Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

Using examples from Caesar to Rabin, Hudson asks to what extent the course of history can be determined by individuals and whether individual leaders are merely the result, and not the cause of political evolution. He argues that assassination cannot reverse a historical tide, but can hasten an evolution, or push events in a desired direction.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The assassination of political, religious and military leaders, often dictators, is frequently seen as the short cut to solving a particular problem. The author takes issue with this argument. Examining a series of linked assassinations together with their causes and effects, he seeks to demonstrate that in many cases the killings have produced unforeseen and unintended consequences that all too often result in the opposite result to that desired. His case studies, arranged intriguingly in pairs, cover such diverse characters as Julius Caesar and Thomas à Becket, Gandhi and Jesus Christ, Tsar Alexander II and Abraham Lincoln, Michael Collins and Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, and Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. This is an absorbing, controversial and informative study.

Biographie de l'auteur

Miles Hudson went into politics after a military career. He was Political Secretary to Sir Alec Douglas Home at the Foreign Office and Director of the Conservative Group for Europe during the 1975 Referendum campaign. He has written numerous books, including Intervention in Russia (Pen and Sword). He lives near Basingstoke.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sutton Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0750919663
• ISBN 13: 9780750919661
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible