Famous Assassinations Of History


Lu par David Wales

(4.5 stars; 14 reviews)

It has been the object of the writer to make each of these “famous assassinations” the central scene of a picture in which the political, religious, or national features of the epoch in which the assassination occurred are portrayed with historical fidelity and strict impartiality…. Only those assassinations have been included which either had an important and political bearing on the world, or on the nation immediately affected, or which left a profound, and, it would seem, indelible impression on the imagination of contemporaries and posterity. - Summary by Book Preface (11 hr 9 min)

Chapitres

Preface 3:03 Lu par David Wales
Assassination of Philip of Macedon (336 BC) 9:17 Lu par David Wales
Assassination of Tiberius Gracchus (133 BC) 20:59 Lu par David Wales
Assassination of Julius Caesar (44 BC) 13:13 Lu par David Wales
Assassinations of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero (AD 37-68) 7:54 Lu par David Wales
Assassination of Hypatia (AD 415) 19:40 Lu par David Wales
Assassination of Thomas A Becket (December 29, 1170) 20:33 Lu par David Wales
Assassination of Gessler (AD 1307) 13:12 Lu par David Wales
Assassination of Inez de Castro (AD 1355) 18:38 Lu par David Wales
Assassinations of Rizzio and Darnley (March 9, 1566; February 9,1567) 38:46 Lu par David Wales
Assassination of William of Orange (July 10, 1584) 34:10 Lu par David Wales
Assassinations by Ivan the Terrible (1560-1584) 23:36 Lu par David Wales
Assassination of Henry the Fourth of France (May 14, 1610) 27:43 Lu par David Wales
Assassination of Wallenstein (February 24, 1634) 43:21 Lu par David Wales
Assassination of the Brothers John and Cornelius de Witt (August 20,1672) 33:47 Lu par David Wales
Assassination of Alexis, Son Of Peter the Great (June 26,1718) 11:14 Lu par David Wales
Assassination of Peter the Third of Russia (July 17, 1762) 48:19 Lu par David Wales
Assassination of Gustavus the Third of Sweden (March 17, 1792) 57:12 Lu par David Wales
Assassination of Jean Paul Marat (July 13, 1793) 29:14 Lu par David Wales
Assassination of Paul the First of Russia (March 24, 1801) 22:07 Lu par David Wales
Assassination of August von Kotzebue (March 23, 1819) 19:27 Lu par David Wales
Assassination of the Duc de Berry (February 13,1820) 24:58 Lu par David Wales
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (April 14, 1865) 23:29 Lu par David Wales
Assassination of Alexander the Second of Russia (March 13, 1881) 37:40 Lu par David Wales
Assassination of William McKinley, President of the United States (September 6,… 27:09 Lu par David Wales
Assassination of Alexander I and Draga, King and Queen of Servia (June 10-11, 1… 40:56 Lu par David Wales

Critiques


(5 stars)

Thank you David Wales. David Wales reads a great number of these types of books... factually-based, historical writings which I personally love but I suspect many Librivox volunteers prefer to read the more well known classic fiction books and so it is with true gratitude that I write this review to thank David Wales for his lovely readings and his time in creating these. Thank you so much and please keep going!