IN THE CROSSHAIRS : Famous Assassinations and Attempts from Julius Caesar to John Lennon
Language: English Publication details: New York Skyhorse 2016/01/01Edition: 1Description: 353ISBN:- 9781510713017
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Assassinations often change the course of history. Here is an intriguing look at dozens of notable assassinations and attempts throughout history, including complete details about the assassin, the victim, the circumstances of the attack, and the outcome. In the Crosshairs also features photos of many of the victims or would-be victims, and rare archival material, including excerpts from original police reports. High-profile celebrities, political figures, religious leaders, and many others have fallen prey to assassins, and many have survived. In the Crosshairs is arranged in alphabetical order, by last name, and includes such details as: On November 8, 1939, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an assassination attempt -- 12 minutes after he left a room where he was making a speech, a bomb went off. Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat would probably have survived the assassin's bullet on October 6, 1981, if he hadn't taken off his bulletproof vest -- but he didn't like the way it made his suit bulge. Robert John Bardo, the murderer of young actress Rebecca Schaeffer, carried with him to the crime scene a copy of J. D, Sallinger's The Catcher in the Rye, just like Mark David Chapman did when he murdered John Lennon nearly nine years earlier. From notable murders (Abraham Lincoln, Gianni Versace, and Indira Gandhi) to little-known attempts (George W. Bush, Wild Bill Hickock, and Andy Warhol) here is a surprising, informative, and intriguing book that deserves to be on every history buff's bookshelf. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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INTRODUCTION : ITA SEMPER PRO NOBILIS
1. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
2.Thomas Beckett
3. Alan Berg
4. George W.Bush
5.Julius Caesar
6. Jimmy Carter
7. Fidel Castro
8. Dick Cheney
9. Jacques Chirac
10. Winston Churchill
11. Claudius
12. Bill Clinton
13. John Connaly
14. Bob Crane
15. Jefferson Davis
16. Charles De Gaulle
17. Thomas Dewey
18. Medgar Evers
19. Louis Farrakhan
20. archduke Franz Ferdinand
21. Larry Flynt
22. Gerald Frick
24. Indira Gandhi
25. Mohandas Gandhi
26. James Garfield
27. Gabrielle Giffords
28. Germaine Greer
29. George Harrison
30. Phil Hartman
31. Wild Bill Hickok
32. Adolf Hitler
33. Herbert Hoover
34. Hubert Humphrey
35. Andrew Jackson
36. Jesse Jackson
37. Jesse James
38. Andrew Johnson
39. Vernon Jordan
40. Hamid Karzai
41. Edward 'Ted' Kennedy
42. John F.Kennedy
43. Robert F. Kennedy
44. Martin Luther King. Jr.
45. Vladimir Lenin
46. John Lennon
47. Abraham Lincoln
48. Hurey P.Long
49. Malcolm X
50. Jean-Paul Marcos
51. Imelda Marcos
52. Christopher Marlowe
53. William McKinley
54. Harvey Milk
55. Sal Minero
56. Lord Mountbatten
57. Hosni Mubarak
58. Haing S. Ngor
59. Richard Nixon
60. Lee Harvey Oswald
61. Pope John Paul II
62. Pope Paul VI
63. Yitzhak Rabin
64. Rasputin
65. Ronald Reagan
66. George Lincoln Rockwell
67. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
68. Theodore Roosevelt
69. Anwar el-Sadat
70. Theresa Saldana
71. Rebecca Schaeffer
72. Monica Seles
73. William Henry Sewad
74. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
75. Margaret Thatcher
76. George Tiller
77. Leon Trotsky
78. Harry S Truman
79. Gianni Versace
80. George Wallace
81. Andy Warhol
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