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Murder in Marseille : right-wing terrorism in 1930s Europe / Chris Millington.

De Gruyter Manchester University Press 2025 eBook-Package Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Millington, Chris, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Aleksandar I, King of Yugoslavia, 1888-1934--Assassination.
Aleksandar.
Ustaša, hrvatska revolucionarna organizacija.
Terrorism--Europe--History--20th century.
Terrorism.
Europe.
Genre:
History
Physical Description:
1 online resource : illustrations
Place of Publication:
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2025.
Summary:
"On 9 October 1934, terrorists murdered King Alexander I of Yugoslavia in a Marseille street. The Croatian ultranationalist Ustashe was behind the attack. The Ustashe hoped that the king’s death would cause the collapse of Yugoslavia and the liberation of the Croat people. This book examines the circumstances, processes, and trajectories that shaped the Ustashe terrorists and their attack in Marseille. It brings questions about contemporary terrorism to bear on a historical attack: what prompts people to join terrorist organisations? How are these people ‘radicalised’ to commit violence? What roles do women play in terrorism? iMurder in Marseille /ibridges the scholarly gap between historical and contemporary terrorism, paying attention to, and often guided by, current concerns, ideas, theories, and notions about terrorist violence."-- From JSTOR.
Contents:
Introduction: carnage on la Canebière
Postwar Yugoslavia and the emergence of the Ustashe, 1918–1934
Murder farms: the Ustashe’s terrorist training camps
Pathways to terrorism: the assassination squad
Killing the king: the assassination of Aleksandar I
Soldiers of a cause?
The assassins on trial
Conclusion: murder in Marseille.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed April 15, 2026).
Other Format:
Print version: Millington, Chris. Murder in Marseille.
ISBN:
9781526177117
1526177110
9781526177131
1526177137
OCLC:
1531948606
Publisher Number:
CIPO000262285
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license

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