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010      2009026715
020    9781592334025
020    1592334024
035    (OCoLC)ocn316018314
035    155453
049    LHMA
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050 00 D24 |b.C86 2010
100 1  Cummins, Joseph.
245 14 The world's bloodiest history : |bmassacre, genocide, and the scars they left on civilization / |cJoseph Cummins.
264  1 Beverly, Mass. : |bFair Winds Press, |c2010.
300    320 pages : |billustrations (some color), color maps ; |c24 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0  "Carthage must be destroyed!" : the first genocide, 146 BCE -- "We have torn our hair with grief" : the massacre of the Mexica, 1521 -- Blood in the name of God : the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, August 24, 1572 -- "The ghastliest forms that were ever seen alive" : the Black Hole of Calcutta, 1756 -- "A shriek of blank despair" : the Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah, 1857 -- "I long to be wading in gore" : the Sand Creek Massacre, 1864 -- A bloody Easter Sunday : the Colfax Massacre, Louisiana, 1873 -- Martyrs' Day : the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1917 -- "If I had not seen it with my own eyes" : the Rape of Nanking, China, 1937-1938 -- Wolves at the grave" : Katyń Forest, April-May, 1940 -- "The ravine of women" : Babi Yar, Steptember 29-30, 1941 -- "Machte alle kaput" : the Malmedy Massacre, December 17, 1944 -- "The greatest stillness" : massacre at Sharpeville, South Africa, March 21, 1960 -- "This Nazi kind of thing" : massacre at My Lai, March 16, 1968 -- Terror in the year zero : the Cambodian Genocide, 1975-1979 -- The bloody Gate of Heavenly Peace : massacre at Tiananmen Square, June 3-4, 1989 -- One hundred days of hell : the Rwandan Genocide, April-July, 1994 -- "Allah can't help you now" : massacre at Srebrenica, July 1995.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
650  0 Massacres |xHistory.
650  0 Massacres |xSocial aspects |xHistory.
650  0 War and society |xHistory.
650  0 History |vAnecdotes.
650  0 Military history |vAnecdotes.
655  7 Anecdotes. |2lcgft
856 42  |3Contributor biographical information |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2009026715-b.html
856 42  |3Publisher description |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2009026715-d.html
852 0   |bstacks |hD24 |i.C86 2010