The Awful End Of Prince William The Silent. The First Assassination Of A Head Of State With A Handgun

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: First Edition

Description: 175 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The assassination of Prince William of Orange by a French Catholic in 1584 had immediate political consequences and a profound effect on the course of history. It was a serious setback for Protestants in the Netherlands, who were struggling for independence from the Catholic rule of the Hapsburg Empire. But the crimes ramifications were even more earth-shattering, for it heralded the arrival of a new threat to the safety of world leaders and the security of nations: a pistol that could easily be concealed on ones person and employed to lethal effect at point-blank range. In this provocative, fascinating, and enormously engaging work, noted author and historian Lisa Jardine brilliantly recounts the brazen act of religious terrorism that changed everythingand explores its long and bloody legacy, from the murder of Abraham Lincoln in 1865 to the slaying of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914, to the plague of terror and violent zealotry that infects our world today.

ISBN: 9780060838355