This book recounts some of the most horrifying episodes of the past, from ancient times to our own, in searing detail, while rigorously investigating their causes - from religious fanaticism and ethnic rivalry to political power struggles and hunger for vengeance -- and their consequences.
Engrossing in their descriptions of diverse historical periods and cultures, intriguing in their insights into human impulses and motivations, perplexing in their implications, these are stories that lead us to reflect on our own character and strength of will, and to question, at the most basic levels, what it means to be human.
Handsomely illustrated with striking, sometimes shocking, often poignant images, this book combines the 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.
Author(s): Joseph Cummins
Publisher: Crestline
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 320
City: Beverly
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 “Carthage Must Be Destroyed!” The First Genocide, 146 BCE
Chapter 2 “We Have Torn Our Hair With Grief” The Massacre of the Mexica 1521
Chapter 3 Blood in the Name of God The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, August 24, 1572
Chapter 4 “The Ghastliest Forms That Were Ever Seen Alive” The Black Hole of Calcutta, 1756
Chapter 5 “A Shriek of Blank Despair” The Mountain Meadows Masacre, Utah, 1857
Chapter 6 “I Long To Be Wading in Gore” The Sand Creek Masacre, 1864
Chapter 7 A Bloody Easter Sunday T he Colfax Masacre, Louisiana, 1873
Chapter 8 Martyrs’ Day The Armenian Genocide, 1915–1917
Chapter 9 “If I Had Not Seen it with My Own Eyes”
Chapter 10 Wolves at the Grave Katyn´ Forest, A pri l–M ay, 1940
Chapter 11 “The Ravine of Women” Babi Yar, September 29–30, 1941
Chapter 12 “Machte Alle Kaput” The Malmedy Massacre , December 1 7, 1944
Chapter 13 “The Greatest Stillness” Massacreat Sharpeville , South Africa , March 2 1, 1960
Chapter 14 “This Nazi Kind of Thing” Massacre at My Lai , March 16, 1968
Chapter 15 Terror in the Year Zero The Cambodian Genocide, 1975–1979
Chapter 16 The Bloody Gate of Heavenly Peace
Chapter 17 One Hundred Days of Hell The Rwandan Genocide , April–July, 1994
Chapter 18 “Allah Can’t Help You Now” Masacre at Srebrenica , July 1995
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
About the author
