The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Handgun
by Jardine, Lisa
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060838353
- ISBN 13
- 9780060838355
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About This Item
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2006. 175 pages, illustrations, map; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "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 crime's 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 one's 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 everything - and 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. / Lisa Jardine is the author of biographies of Robert Hooke and Christopher Wren. She is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, and is also an honorary fellow of King's College, Cambridge. She lives in London, England." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
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- Title
- The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Handgun
- Author
- Jardine, Lisa
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0060838353
- ISBN 13
- 9780060838355
- Publisher
- HarperCollinsPublishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES;
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