Famous Assassinations in World History: A-P

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ABC-CLIO, 2014 - Assassination - 906 pages
"Famous Assassinations in World History: An Encyclopedia" offers more than 200 entries on assassinations of all kinds that will allow readers to grasp the often-complex motivating factors behind each event and better understand historical and contemporary social unrest. Each entry identifies the assassination target and summarizes that person's significance; discusses the person's assassination, including the factors that led up to it and its political and cultural contexts; and explains the powerful effects of the assassination in world history.

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