[HN Gopher] The best books on assassinations
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The best books on assassinations
Author : emailed
Score : 31 points
Date : 2021-08-15 19:17 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| ttctciyf wrote:
| Don DeLillo, _Libra_ should be in there somewhere, I think.
| changoplatanero wrote:
| I like this book called "Assassination" where the author
| recreates the stories of 12 presidential assassination and
| assassination attempts using legos.
| jamestimmins wrote:
| The Day of the Jackal is a phenomenal thriller
| kirsebaer wrote:
| The declassified CIA manuals on assassination:
| https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4/index.html
| tiahura wrote:
| Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_Man:_A_Technical_Manual_...
| bazeblackwood wrote:
| > "Hitler, uncharacteristically, cut short the speech he was
| making to go and plan the invasion of France. Had he continued
| speaking, he would have been blown to pieces in November 1939.
| That would have surely have been a very good thing because, in
| the period between that event and the June 1944 bomb plot, two-
| and-a-half million German soldiers died."
|
| Ah yes, the group of people who were famously killed en masse
| because of Hitler between 1939 and 1944... German soldiers.
| GordonS wrote:
| I mean, 2.5m dead German soldiers is horrendous of course...
| but yeah, I have to agree... it's a _very_ odd choice of phrase
| to make here?!
| rospaya wrote:
| Everybody kills Hitler on their first (time) trip.
|
| https://archive.briankoberlein.com/2015/11/09/everybody-kill...
| sdoering wrote:
| WTF. I agree with sister comment from GordonS.
|
| But also need to say, that the numbers are off. WW II cost
| significantly less than 6 million German soldiers' lifes. The
| author states that 7 million German soldiers died.
|
| But yeah. Stating the death of German soldiers as the most
| important outcome from WW II is imho at least problematic. It
| shows a lack of empathy and historic sensitivity.
| neilv wrote:
| That's a very troubling quote, so I went to the article, hoping
| it wasn't as bad as it sounded. But it seemed bad in the
| article, too.
|
| The lead-up alludes to what I suspect was the author's intent,
| in that way of putting it (i.e., saying the effect relative to
| some goals of the assassin), but that's really not communicated
| as clearly as it must be.
|
| I can understand that a writer might miss this communication
| failure, when in tunnel vision on some narrow point they were
| trying to make. But I'd hope a professional editor would've
| caught it. Perhaps there's an understated standard proofreading
| markup notation like "WTF?!" with a firmly-pressed circle
| around it. Then the writer would realize their communication
| mistake, and feel awful about it, but also relived it was
| caught before publication.
|
| Ideally, that never would've made it to publication without
| editing. But a small consolation is that at least we readers
| can learn from the mistake, and be less likely to make that
| mistake ourselves.
| speedgeek wrote:
| Those seem so dry. I would suggest Assassination Vacation by
| Sarah Vowell.
| obeid wrote:
| Seem? Did you just judge a book by its cover?
| aaron695 wrote:
| We went to where North Korea tricked their agents for Kim Jong-
| nam's assignation.
|
| I expected some sort of back alley brothel, but it was just the
| number one spot on Tripadvisor.
|
| I think like all these things don't get stuck into a rut thinking
| the people doing this stuff are amazing or smart. You just need
| belief in yourself, and probably not even that. I bet Kim Jong-un
| top assassins had imposer syndrome too. (The on-ground recruits
| thought they were on a game show)
| sandworm101 wrote:
| Best that I've read: _I Claudius_ , by Robert Graves.
| Bayart wrote:
| I'm not quite sure it's really a book on assassination. This
| being said, it also has a great BCC adaptation with Derek
| Jacobi [1] !
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| [1]:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEeXcJZEATU&list=PLEjWO5ZEvW...
| sam_lowry_ wrote:
| This is a bit off-topic, but Navalny calling his killer and
| pranking him into telling all kinds of nasty details of Navalny's
| own killing attempt is mind-bogging [1]. I am sure this is now
| part of all secrets services of the world 101 trainings.
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| Full audio with English transcript: [2].
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| There is also a bit of background told by Navalny later on, e.g.
| the name Maxim Sergeevich Ustinov was not really random.
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| [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibqiet6Bg38
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| [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlJbwUhIBxE
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| P.S. fivebooks.com seems to be spamming HN quite regularly.
| snypher wrote:
| I think the last fivebooks.com link was posted 45 days ago?
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