Death to Order: A History of Modern Assassination

by Simon Ball

A deeply researched history of assassination in the modern world, from Franz Ferdinand to Osama bin Laden

Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Leon Trotsky, Reinhard Heydrich, Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Indira Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto, Osama bin Laden, Qasem Soleimani: assassination--the murder of a specific individual by an organised conspiracy in pursuit of political ends--has rarely failed to grip the imagination.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300258046
• ISBN13: 9780300258042
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 384 Pages