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Book Review: Attentate in Österreich

Book Review: Attentate in Österreich BOOK REVIEWS 325 Pohanka, Reinhard. Attentate in Osterreich. Graz: Verlag Styria, 2001. Pp. 232, illus. Considered from a historical perspective, political murder is not only a constant phe- nomenon but also—according to the great number of publications dealing with this subject—one of the most fascinating: it is (mostly) thrilling, (always) bloody, and sometimes it changes history. The motives for such deeds are quite different—for example, to "free" a community ("tyrannicide"), to avenge a misdemeanor, or to draw the public's attention to something or somebody (mostly to the assassin). Despite many similarities, every assassination—the "successful" ones and the failed ones as well—has to be treated as an individual case with individual protagonists and unique historical circumstances. That is why so many authors have failed to pre- sent a satisfying compendium of assassination. The same goes for Reinhard Pohanka's Attentate in Osterreich. The author deals with twenty cases of political mur- der or assassination attempts, from Friedrich Staps's unsuccessful assault on Napoleon I to the series of letter-bomb attacks in the 1990s, whose most prominent victim was Helmut Zilk, then mayor of Vienna. Pohanka takes into account only cases committed on the territory of the contempo- rary Republic of Austria, not http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Austrian History Yearbook Cambridge University Press

Book Review: Attentate in Österreich

Austrian History Yearbook , Volume 34: 2 – Feb 10, 2009
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Cambridge University Press
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Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 2003
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0067-2378
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1558-5255
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10.1017/S0067237800020580
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BOOK REVIEWS 325 Pohanka, Reinhard. Attentate in Osterreich. Graz: Verlag Styria, 2001. Pp. 232, illus. Considered from a historical perspective, political murder is not only a constant phe- nomenon but also—according to the great number of publications dealing with this subject—one of the most fascinating: it is (mostly) thrilling, (always) bloody, and sometimes it changes history. The motives for such deeds are quite different—for example, to "free" a community ("tyrannicide"), to avenge a misdemeanor, or to draw the public's attention to something or somebody (mostly to the assassin). Despite many similarities, every assassination—the "successful" ones and the failed ones as well—has to be treated as an individual case with individual protagonists and unique historical circumstances. That is why so many authors have failed to pre- sent a satisfying compendium of assassination. The same goes for Reinhard Pohanka's Attentate in Osterreich. The author deals with twenty cases of political mur- der or assassination attempts, from Friedrich Staps's unsuccessful assault on Napoleon I to the series of letter-bomb attacks in the 1990s, whose most prominent victim was Helmut Zilk, then mayor of Vienna. Pohanka takes into account only cases committed on the territory of the contempo- rary Republic of Austria, not

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Published: Feb 10, 2009

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