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Author : S. Anandaram
Publisher : Vision Books (DE)
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015032960315
Author : David C Hanrahan
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780752478050
Only once in history has a British Prime Minister been assassinated. At 5.00 p.m. on Monday, 11 May 1812, John Bellingham made his way to the Houses of Parliament carrying concealed weapons. At 5.15 p.m., as the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon. Spencer Perceval, was making his way across the lobby leading to the House of Commons, Bellingham shot him dead at point-blank range. Bellingham was immediately arrested and put on trial two days later: refusing to plead insanity, he was convicted and hanged before the week was out. Bellingham was neither a revolutionary nor a religious fanatic, but a successful young entrepreneur. What had driven him to commit such a heinous crime? In a story of suspense, revenge and personal tragedy, David C. Hanrahan tells the interwoven stories of Perceval and Bellingham, detailing not just the events of May 1812, but also the two men's histories, and what led one to take the other's life.
Author : A. C. Alles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0533066360
Author : Andro Linklater
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408831717
On 11 May 1812 Spencer Perceval, the British Prime Minister, was fatally shot at close range in the lobby of the House of Commons. In the confused aftermath, his assailant, John Bellingham, made no effort to escape. A week later, before his motives could be examined, he was tried and hanged.Here, for the first time, the historian Andro Linklater looks past the conventional image of Bellingham as a 'deranged businessman' and portrays him as an individual, driven by personal anxieties and by the raw emotions that convulsed his home town of Liverpool. But as the evidence accumulates, a wider, darker picture emerges - John Bellignham was not alone in hating the prime minister.Two hundred years later, Andro Linklater examines the ecidence and brilliantly deconstructs the assassination of Spencer Perceval - the only British Prime Minister ever to have suffered that fate - to offer a fresh perspective on Britain and the Western world at a critical moment in history.
Author : Martin Connolly
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 152675147X
England entered the nineteenth century having lost the American states and was at war with France. The slave trade had been halted and the country was in torment, with industrialisation throwing men and women out of work as poverty haunted their lives. As the merchants of England and America saw their businesses stagnate and profits plummet, everyone blamed the government and its policies. Those in charge were alarmed and businessmen, who were believed to be exploiting the poor, were murdered. Assassination indeed stalked the streets. The man at the centre of the storm was Prime Minister Spencer Perceval. From the higher reaches of society to the beggar looking for bread, many wanted him dead, due to policies brought about by his inflexible religious convictions and his belief that he was appointed by God. In May 1812 he entered the Lobby of the Houses of Parliament when a man stepped forward and fired a pistol at him. The lead ball entered into his heart. Within minutes he was dead. Using freshly-discovered archive material, this book explores the assassin's thoughts and actions through his own writings. Using his background in psychology, the author explores the question of the killer's sanity and the fairness of his subsequent trial. Within its pages the reader will find an account of the murder of Spencer Perceval and a well-developed portrait of his assassin.
Author : David C. Hanrahan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Assassins
ISBN : 1322359962
Author : Dan Ephron
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393242102
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History and one of the New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of the Year. The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin remains the single most consequential event in Israel’s recent history, and one that fundamentally altered the trajectory for both Israel and the Palestinians. In Killing a King, Dan Ephron relates the parallel stories of Rabin and his stalker, Yigal Amir, over the two years leading up to the assassination, as one of them planned political deals he hoped would lead to peace, and the other plotted murder. "Carefully reported, clearly presented, concise and gripping," It stands as "a reminder that what happened on a Tel Aviv sidewalk 20 years ago is as important to understanding Israel as any of its wars" (Matti Friedman, The Washington Post).
Author : Ritu Sarin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015025187595
Author : Andro Linklater
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802712417
At approximately 5:15pm on the afternoon of May 11, 1812, Spencer Perceval, the all-powerful Prime Minister of Great Britain, was fatally shot at short range in the lobby of Parliament. His assailant was John Bellingham, a man who blamed his government for not intervening when he was unjustly imprisoned in Russia. The killer made no effort to escape in the confusion; remarkably, he firmly believed he would not only be exonerated, but applauded, for his action. But he was not to enjoy relief; a week later, granted the briefest of trials that trampled his right to due process, he was hanged. In A Political Killing, Andro Linklater examines Bellingham's motives against the dramatic events of his time with the eye of a skilled forensic examiner and the determination of the finest detective. Though small in stature and quiet by nature, few prime ministers have enjoyed Perceval's power; he was also Chancellor of the Exchequer, and as such, in a time of economic disaster caused by the naval blockade against Napoleon's France, which he endorsed, Perceval nonetheless made the decision to sustain Wellington's army in Spain against Napoleon; sent troops to Ireland to compel the loyalty of dissident Catholics; and raised taxes to new heights to finance his activities. Bellingham's act opens a fascinating window onto the western world at the height of the Napoleonic Wars and the start of the War of 1812. At the same time, Linklater investigates, as nobody appears ever to have, the movements and connections of John Bellingham to answer the same questions that have been asked ever since JFK's assassination: Did he act alone? And if not, who aided him, and why?
Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780801470110
The Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, a major figure in world politics and an ardent opponent of apartheid, was shot dead on the streets of Stockholm in February 1986. At the time of his death, Palme was deeply involved in Middle East diplomacy and was working under UN auspices to end the Iran-Iraq war. Across Scandinavia, Palme's killing had an impact similar to that of the Kennedy assassinations in the United States—and it ignited nearly as many conspiracy theories. Interest in the Palme slaying was most recently stirred by reports of the death of Christer Pettersson, who was tried for the murder twice, convicted the first time, and then acquitted on appeal. In his investigative account of Palme's still-unsolved murder, the historian Jan Bondeson meticulously recreates the assassination and its aftermath. Like the best works of crime fiction, this book puts the victim and his death into social context. Bondeson's work, however, is noteworthy for its dispassionate treatment of police incompetence: the police did not answer a witness's phone call reporting the murder just 45 seconds after it occurred, and further time was lost as the police sought to confirm that someone had actually been shot. When the police arrived on the scene, they did not even recognize the victim as the Prime Minister. This early confusion was emblematic of the errors that were to follow. Bondeson demolishes the various conspiracy theories that have been devised to make sense of the killing, before suggesting a convincing explanation of his own. A brilliant piece of investigative journalism, Blood on the Snow includes crime-scene photographs and reconstructions that have never before been published and offers a gripping narrative of a crime that shocked a continent.
Author : Dilip Bobb,Asoka Raina
Publisher : New Delhi : Vikas
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : India
ISBN : UCAL:B4302525
Author : Murray Clark Havens,Carl Leiden,Karl Michael Schmitt
Publisher : Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : True Crime
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034921655
Revised edition was published in 1975 under title : Assassination and terrorism.
Author : H. H. A. Cooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114372423
There were many who had no wish to see an early settlement of the Iran/Iraq ward. Some of these were nation states with an animus against one or both of the combatants. Some hoped that hostilities would exhaust the two contenders, while others, such as international arms dealers, sought to profit. The authors see the Swedish Prime Minister as an unfortunate victim of a largely clandestine clash of forces: it is their identity that continues to elude investigators. The authors examine all the evidence, present their own case on these arcane matters, leaving it to the readers to come to their own conclusions."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Publisher : Advent Books Division Incorporated
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Pakistan
ISBN : UCAL:B4918660
Comprises the text of the documents presented to the Supreme Court of Pakistan in Bhutto's appeal against the death sentence.
Author : Anuj Dhar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : India
ISBN : 9386473356