Assassin! : 200 years of British political murder / Ian Hernon.
-- Exposes Britain's secret history of political killings, murder and intrigue --For as long as the world has had rulers, there have been plots to assassinate those at the top. Violent death is usually associated with dictatorships and tinpot regimes. Few.
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London ; Ann Arbor, MI :
Pluto Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations; 1 Introduction; 2 The Despard Plot; 3 Death of a Prime Minister; 4 The Cato Street Conspiracy; 5 Queen Victoria
- The First Attempt; 6 The McNaughton Rules; 7 Queen Victoria
- Further Attempts; 8 The Wounding of the Duke of Edinburgh; 9 The Phoenix Park Murders; 10 The Cairo Gang and the Pass of the Flowers; 11 The Attempt on Edward VIII; 12 British Assassinations Overseas; 13 The Troubles to Airey Neave; 14 The Murder of Lord Mountbatten; 15 The Brighton Bomb; 16 The Troubles to Ian Gow; 17 The Attack on John Major and Beyond; 18 The Attempt on Tony Blair.
- 19 ConclusionsNotes; Bibliography; Index.