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The World in Time: Death of a Prime Minister
Why Spencer Percival Had to Die: The Assassination of a British Prime Minister
by Andro Linklater
Walker and Company (May 8, 2012)
200 years ago, Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of Britain, was shot to death in the House of Commons. He remains the only British PM to meet such a fate, explored in Andro Linklater's Why Spencer Percival Had to Die.
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