The World's Bloodiest HistoryHandsomely illustrated with more than 100 striking, sometimes shocking, archival images gathered from around the world, The World's Bloodiest History combines compelling depictions of momentous events with fascinating character portraits and arresting eyewitness accounts to create an absorbing, multifaceted chronicle of a sobering, all-too-human legacy. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 6 |
Chapter 1 Carthage Must Be Destroyed The First Genocide 146 BCE | 10 |
Chapter 2 We Have Torn Our Hair With Grief The Massacre of the Mexica 1521 | 24 |
Chapter 3 Blood in the Name of God The St Bartholomews Day Massacre August 24 1572 | 40 |
Chapter 4 The Ghastliest Forms That Were Ever Seen Alive The Black Hole of Calcutta 1756 | 56 |
Chapter 5 A Shriek of Blank Despair The Mountain Meadows Masacre Utah 1857 | 74 |
Chapter 6 I Long To Be Wading in Gore The Sand Creek Masacre 1864 | 92 |
Chapter 7 A Bloody Easter Sunday T he Colfax Masacre Louisiana 1873 | 108 |
Chapter 12 Machte Alle Kaput The Malmedy Massacre December 1 7 1944 | 200 |
Chapter 13 The Greatest Stillness Massacreat Sharpeville South Africa March 2 1 1960 | 214 |
Chapter 14 This Nazi Kind of Thing Massacre at My Lai March 16 1968 | 228 |
Chapter 15 Terror in the Year Zero The Cambodian Genocide 19751979 | 246 |
Chapter 16 The Bloody Gate of Heavenly Peace | 262 |
Chapter 17 One Hundred Days of Hell The Rwandan Genocide AprilJuly 1994 | 276 |
Chapter 18 Allah Cant Help You Now Masacre at Srebrenica July 1995 | 292 |
Bibliography | 308 |
Other editions - View all
The World's Bloodiest History: Massacre, Genocide, and the Scars They Left ... Joseph Cummins No preview available - 2013 |
The World's Bloodiest History: Massacre, Genocide, and the Scars They Left ... Joseph Cummins No preview available - 2018 |
Common terms and phrases
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