The world's bloodiest history
Subtitle: massacre, genocide, and the scars they left on civilization
By: Joseph Cummins.
Publisher: Fair Winds Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Beverly, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781592334025
Subjects: Massacres -- History; Massacres -- Social aspects -- History; War and society -- History; History -- Anecdotes; Military history -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Carthage must be destroyed!" : the first genocide, 146 BCE; title: "We have torn our hair with grief" : the massacre of the Mexica, 1521; title: Blood in the name of God : the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, August 24, 1572; title: "The ghastliest forms that were ever seen alive" : the Black Hole of Calcutta, 1756; title: "A shriek of blank despair" : the Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah, 1857; title: "I long to be wading in gore" : the Sand Creek Massacre, 1864; title: A bloody Easter Sunday : the Colfax Massacre, Louisiana, 1873; title: Martyrs' Day : the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1917; title: "If I had not seen it with my own eyes" : the Rape of Nanking, China, 1937-1938; title: Wolves at the grave" : Katyń Forest, April-May, 1940; title: "The ravine of women" : Babi Yar, Steptember 29-30, 1941; title: "Machte alle kaput" : the Malmedy Massacre, December 17, 1944; title: "The greatest stillness" : massacre at Sharpeville, South Africa, March 21, 1960; title: "This Nazi kind of thing" : massacre at My Lai, March 16, 1968; title: Terror in the year zero : the Cambodian Genocide, 1975-1979; title: The bloody Gate of Heavenly Peace : massacre at Tiananmen Square, June 3-4, 1989; title: One hundred days of hell : the Rwandan Genocide, April-July, 1994; title: "Allah can't help you now" : massacre at Srebrenica, July 1995.