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    Bodyguards!: From Gladiators to the Secret Service

    By Ed Butts and Scott Plumbe

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    About this ebook

    We might think of bodyguards as a modern concept, but they’ve been around since ancient times. The rich, the powerful, the famous, and the infamous have all placed their safety in the hands of bodyguards. From Caesar’s Praetorian Guard to Japanese samurai warriors to Wild West outlaws, bodyguards have played a vital role. They’ve even changed the course of history.

    There are notorious bodyguards who protect gangsters from the police and those who are paid to shield celebrities from the paparazzi, while others escort children in danger of being kidnapped. In Bodyguards! you’ll meet both heroes (like the quick-thinking guard whose spear saved the life of Alexander the Great) and villains (like the elite Hitler Bodyguard, later tried as war criminals), and even some bodyguards who have failed in their job to protect.

    Brimming with vibrant action-packed illustrations in graphic-novel style, Bodyguards! opens the window on the fascinating stories of those entrusted to protect people’s lives.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnnick Press
    Release dateJul 12, 2012
    ISBN9781554514960
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    Bodyguards!: From Gladiators to the Secret Service
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    Ed Butts

    Ed Butts’ books, for both adult and young readers, include titles that have been nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award, the Red Maple Award and the Hackmatack Award. His book Wartime: The First World War in a Canadian Town won the Ontario Historical Society’s J.J. Talman Award. This Game of War was inspired by Butts’ interest in the stories behind the names on the cenotaph in his hometown of Guelph, Ontario.

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