William Leith10 October 2013
JFK, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and John Lennon were all killed by assassins. In this book, a dignified page-turner, we enter the worlds of these desperate men and women. Some of the stories are haunting. John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s killer, shot him in a theatre — as he pointed the gun, he spoke the word “freedom”. Lincoln had been shot at before — the bullet had knocked his hat off. The attempt on Hitler didn’t work because Von Stauffenberg put the bomb the wrong side of a table-leg. The blast shredded the Führer’s trousers. Such are the currents of history.
