Simon Ball Death to Order review, recensie en informatie boek met een moderne geschiedenis van politieke moord in opdracht. Op 26 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press het nieuwe boek van Simon Ball over huurmoord van de hoogleraar internationale geschiedenis en politiek aan de Universiteit van Leeds. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.
Simon Ball Death to Order review en recensie
- “Ball cautions against focusing too much on the assassins or even their victims… His thrust is political: to examine how assassination functions as an instrument, and how states’ reactions to assassination shape its use.” (Dan Piepenbring, Harper’s Magazine)
- “Death to Order is a masterpiece of international history. Simon Ball wears his great learning lightly, but the new research is prodigious and could hardly be more necessary. As contemporary events keep reminding us, this is a story for our times.” (Richard Aldous)
Death to Order
A Modern History of Assassination
- Auteur: Simon Ball (Engeland)
- Soort boek: politieke geschiedenis, true crime
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Yale University Press
- Verschijnt: 26 augustus 2025
- Omvang: 464 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: $ 35,00
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van het boek van Simon Ball
A deeply researched history of assassination in the modern world, from Franz Ferdinand to Osama bin Laden.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Leon Trotsky, Reinhard Heydrich, Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Indira Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto, Osama bin Laden, Qasem Soleimani: assassination—the murder of a specific individual by an organised conspiracy in pursuit of political ends—has rarely failed to grip the imagination.
In this incisive new history, Simon Ball shows how targeted political murder has become a tool of democratic states but also a key strategy of those who wish to topple them. Ball introduces us to the techniques of assassination and those who wield them, as well as the security regimes that have developed to prevent this violent practice. From the First World War and the age of empire to terrorism and the development of pilotless drones, Death to Order places assassination at the heart of modern political history—and shows how it continues to impact our world.
Simon Ball is professor of international history and politics at the University of Leeds. He is the author of six acclaimed books, including Secret History, The Bitter Sea, and The Guardsmen.