Twisted history
Subtitle: 32 true stories of torture, traitors, sadists and psychos... plus the most celebrated saints in history
By: Howard Watson
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9781770855564
Subjects: Psychopaths; Saints; Murderers; Torture; History
Description: Twisted History brings to life the stories of 32 historical figures -- murderers, assassins and traitors who embraced the dark side, and martyrs and innocents who paid with their lives in the pursuit of good, all of whom changed world history.
Table of contents: title: Treachery & torture. Brutus ; William Wallace ; Gilles de Rais ; Vlad the Impaler ; Richard III ; Guy Fawkes ; Benedict Arnold ; Adolf Eichmann ; Pierre Laval ; Lavrentiy Beria; title: Saints & sinners. Judas Iscariot ; Nero ; Joan of Arc ; Tomás de Torquemada ; Thomas More ; René Goupil ; Rasputin ; Adolf Hitler ; Mahatma Gandhi ; Martin Luther King, Jr. ; Bernie Madoff; title: Murder & mayhem. Blackbeard ; Dick Turpin ; Thug Behram ; John Wilkes Booth ; Billy the Kid ; Jack the Ripper ; H.H. Holmes ; Al Capone ; Kazuo Taoka ; Joseph Stalin ; Lee Harvey Oswald.