Massacres: An Account of Crimes Against Humanity
By Brian Bailey.
Description
Ironically, the world's most famous massacre probably never happened. The Massacre of the Innocents, which for 2000 years has symbolized man's ruthless inhumanity to man, was almost certainly a fabrication. History, however, provides no shortage of real horrors to demonstrate the savagery of which man is still capable, even after King Herod. From Tamurlaine, whose Tartar hordes left pyramids of human heads in place of flourishing cities in the 14th century, to Stalin, whose forced collectivization and subsequent purges killed millions, massacres have been used as an instrument of ...
ISBN(s)
1857975731, 9781857975734