The Death of Trotsky - The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin's Greatest Enemy

For fans of Ben Macintyre, the gripping story of the assassination of Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky and the deadly game of cat and mouse that preceded it On August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky invited a man he knew only as Jacques Mornard into his study. Mornard waited for Trotsky to sit, then smashed an ice pick he had hidden in his raincoat into his skull. For over a decade, Trotsky’s greatest enemy, Joseph Stalin, had been trying to arrange his murder. His agents had hunted him across Europe and into a lonely, bitter exile in Mexico. He had liquidated Trotsky’s family and friends, and yet Trotsky had always escaped his clutches. The man who changed this all was Ramón Mercader, a minor Spanish aristocrat and Soviet agent who had posed as Mornard, a dissolute Belgian playboy, and infiltrated Trotsky’s inner circle. In

Product details

• Authors: Josh Ireland, Ireland Josh
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 24.02.2026
• EAN: 9780593187104
• ISBN: 978-0-593-18710-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); True Crime, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, True Crime / Espionage, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Espionage & secret services, General and world history, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Espionage and secret services, Marxism & Communism, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General