HANDS OF TERROR Notable Assassinations of the Twentieth Century

Hardback. Featuring sme of the kings and presidents, the princes and politicos, whose sudden deaths changed the pattern of a century's formative years. Here roughnecks jostle royalty and republicans alike, and a blade, a bullet, or a bomb scatters the dust o a dynasty to the four winds. Featuring 12 cases which include : Murder of Ghandhi (India); Jacques Mornard (Mexico); Murder of King Alexander of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou; Murder of Engelbert Dollfuss (Austria); Murder of Giacomo Matteotti (Italy); Murder of Sir Henry Wilson (1922); Leon F. Czolgosz/William McKinley (USA)King Umberto/Gaetano Bresci (Italy 1900). Illus. 228pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Lightly browned edges and eps, o/w Vg+ in notched (see image) and frayed G++ dw.