The World's Worst Atrocities (World's Greatest)

By Nigel Cawthorne

Morbid fascination or education, these stories highlight some of the most harrowing events of history that show mans inhumanity to man. Extremely shocking at times, it is difficult to believe that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0753700905
• ISBN13: 9780753700907
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Bounty Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.6" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Harrowing accounts of man's inhumanity to man

This book offers harrowing accounts of some of the worst examples in history of man's inhumanity to man, documenting some of the most horrific genocides and mass murders in history. It is difficult to digest in some parts , as a lot of it is very graphic , but if truly opens a window on some of history's real life horrors up to events very recent. Events documented include the Mongol Hordes of Genghis Khan and their devastation of Central Asia and parts of Russia , the Auto Da Fe and the horrors and tortures of the Spanish Inquisition , Robespierre's Reign of Terror , King Leopold of Belgium's atrocities in the Congo , the murder of the Romanov family by the Bolsheviks in Russia in 1918 , which preceded the mass murder of 60 million people in the Soviet Union under the monsters Lenin and Stalin , the Amritsar massacre by the British of unarmed Indian protestors in 1919 , , the massacre by Stalin of 50 000 Polish officers in the Katyn Forest in 1940 , the liquidation of the Warsaw Gehetto by the Nazis in 1941 and the massacre at Babi Yar of 200 000 Jews in that same year, the killing fields of Cambodia in which the Marxist Khmer Rouge murdered over 2 million Cambodians , in the most gruesome ways imaginable , the gassing of the Kurds by modern day Hitler Saddam Hussein , the Lockerbie bombings in 1988 , the Tianmen Square Massacre n Beinjing , China in 1989 , and the holocaust in Rwanda in which over 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus where butchered. The horrors documented in this book are extrememly descriptive and often hard to believe. It essentially poses more question than it answers. What drives man's brutality to his fellow human beings? Not only do we need to ask what drives the butchers of history like Genghis Khan , Torquemada , Cortez , Robespierre , King Leopold , Lenin , Stalin, Hitler , Mao Zedong , Pol Pot , Saddam Hussein , Muammar Gadaffi , the Interhamwe and Omar al Bashir , but also what drives their minions who carry ot the atrocities. Some of the more recent atrocities listed answer some questions about recent events. when we know more about the atrocities carried out by Saddam Hussein , who was himself a weapon of mass destruction , responsible for the death of well over a million Iraquis , we understand that the USA did the right thing to remove him! When we understand the atrocities commited by Lenin , Stalin , Mao , Pol POt to name only a few , we understand that Communism is a ruthless killing machine that must be resisted at all costs! Of course there are some events that I believe should have been included in this digest , which where not. These include the massacre of Jewish communities in the Land of Israel ('Palestine') during the 1920's and 1930's by Arab gangs , such as the destruction of the ancient Jewish community of Hebron , Mao's Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward , the rape of Lebanon by Syria and Palestinian terrorists , in which 100 000 Christian Lebanese where murdered , (A massacre which