Assassinations that Changed the World

I was attracted to this book because of certain of the figures I knew were featured, and I was even more interested after I received it and saw other assassinations in the book, like Benazir Bhutto and Malcolm X, both figures whom I greatly admire. I was intrigued to read about Jamal Khashoggi's death, for he was a well known journalist in Saudi Arabia while I was a puny little freelancer in Saudi Arabia trying to make a buck to buy toys for my kids. I had not known that the dissident's grandfather, Mohammad Khaled Khashoggi was personal physician to King Ibn Saud, the founder of Saudi Arabia. Of course everyone has heard of Adnan Khashoggi, the billionaire arms dealer who was the middleman in the Iran-Contra scandal in the 80s and a neighbor of Donald Trump. If you're interested in who-knows-who, this book gives a lot of that kind of information, and I am still talking about the grandfather Mohammad's daughter Samira having married Mohamed Al-Fayed. Who knew that Jamal Khashoggi was first cousin to Dodi Al Fayed? If your friends are into who's who, pick your assassinated person and you can drop little known tidbits into the conversation. There is no particular chronology to this compendium of interesting assassinated individuals, but I found enough of my own interests to make it well worth the read.#AssassinationsThatChangedTheWorld #NetGalley

It is a history book that strings together epic events where one group of humans exterminated a person who was good or bad or controversial for their own interests or misplaced faiths.
It tells stories of big assassinations in a movie like easily graspable prose. It describes 48 assassination over 10 centuries with accompanying circumstances, backgrounds and aftermaths.
It starts from 2019 and runs backwards. It would have been Even more intriguing if it contained pictures.
It has wide base and almost all main countries appear in the book.
It is a cohesive presentation of all events that unfold around these acts which sometimes appear correct and most of the times wrong.
But these happen all the time even if we stop counting them.
I could connect with recent events more clearly than very old ones.
A very readable and informative book that is easily recommend.

This book was a provocative look inside the assassinations of our beloved leaders who could of changed the world for the better and did change the world in some way . Very good book

this book was really informative and well-written, you could tell that the author knew what they were talking about. It was a really interesting read.