The assassination

I 1880-tallets Amerika vet alle hvem Jesse James er. Han er landets mest beryktede forbryter og etterlyst i ti stater. Samtidig er han landets største helt og hylles av befolkningen som en ekte Robin Hood. Robert Ford?…

A comprehensive guide to nearly all available information on the assassination of President Kennedy features detailed entries on the 1, 400 suspects, victims, witnesses, law enforcement officials, and investigators…

Why is Pulitzer-Prize-nominated investigative reporter Dorothy Kilgallen one of the most feared journalists in history?

A disturbing and controversial expose of the ethics of remote-controlled warfare in the twenty-first century.

On 27 May 1942 a Czech agent threw a bomb at a passing Mercedes Reinhard Heydrich was travelling in. The assassination sent a shock wave through the Nazi leadership and provoked ferocious reprisals against Czechs and…

A smart, witty new musical by Chris Bush and Matt Winkworth about truth, celebrity and public outrage. A shocking crime divides the nation. Fingers are pointed, sides are drawn, facts are hard to come by. Why did this…

This is the extraordinary story of the British plot in the summer of 1918 to overthrow the Bolshevik government in Russia, murder the Bolshevik leaders, and install a new government in Moscow that would re-open the war…

The shot that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 is known as the 'shot heard around the world'. Using a reconstructed bulletproof vest and a Browning Model 1910 pistol, Lisa Traynor poses a haunting question: had…

A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light. Including a new story 'The School of…

Patrice Lumumba, first prime minister of the Republic of Congo and a pioneer of African unity, was assassinated on 17 January 1961. His crime had been to defy the Belgian government which sought to maintain a covert…

This study investigates the numerous sightings and sounds of weapons in and around Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963 as well as bullets and bullet fragments found in Dealey Plaza and experiments that employed 21st…

In Victorian England, intrepid journalist Sonya Winter (Diana Rigg) confronts mysterious tycoon Ivan Dragomiloff (Oliver Reed) with her knowledge that he's in fact the mastermind of a cabal formed by the world's top…

Reading this book by former intelligence officer Colonel John Hughes-Wilson, no one can be in any doubt that JFK's death was not at the hands of a lone deranged gunman, but a deadly plot to remove a President who…

In The Forgotten Terrorist Mel Ayton profiles Sirhan Sirhan and presents a wealth of evidence about his fanatical Palestinian nationalism and hatred for Robert F. Kennedy, which motivated him to assassinate RFK in 1968.…

A nail-bitingly suspenseful account of the conspiracy of assassins that hunted down Turkish officials following the Armenian Genocide.

Amy Knight traces Putin's journey from the Federal Security Service (FSB) in the late 1990s to his subsequent rise to absolute power as the Kremlin's leader today.

In an Ireland still reeling from years of famine, with tenant farmers being evicted and left to starve for their inability to pay exorbitant rents, revolutionary fervour was growing. An inner circle of the IRB was…

It is 1963 and an anonymous Englishman has been hired by the Operations Chief of the OAS to murder General de Galle. A failed attempt in the previous year means the target will be nearly impossible to get to. But this…

The death of JFK, Jr., was not an accident, but instead a carefully planned assassination.

A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light. Including a new story 'The School of…

The book's first chapter contains new revelations about how Oswald was a witting false defector to the USSR in a CIA plan to surface a KGB mole in the CIA. The second volume in a series on the assassination of President…

This is the story of JFK's assassination as told from the frontline: it is about the people - from the highest to the lowest - who were caught up in that four-day whirlwind in November 1963.

Sarajevo, 28 June 1914: The story of the assassination that changed the world. 'Outstanding' SPECTATOR 'A fine piece of political and literary detective work, which held this reader enthralled' TRIBUNE

From the time he got off the plane at Love Field, he was pleasantly surprised to see the thousands of admirers who awaited the arrival of Air Force One at Love. As the motorcade travelled from Love Field into the city,…

Rather than rehashing what scores of books have already alleged, Untried and Unpunished offers a completely fresh premise, meticulous analysis, and stunning conclusions: this original, thought-provoking study will…

48 assassinations - from Archduke Franz Ferdinand to Osama Bin Laden - that changed the world

"A remarkable feat of fearless and responsible reporting . . . important, timely, and informative."John le CarreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF's targeted…

The dazzling second book from Man Booker Prize-winning Aravind Adiga.

World War II Plans That Never Happened describes some of the most secret and outrageous operations planned during the war - many of which might well have changed the course of history - along with with copies of secret…