Tag: Massacre

Free Download Adrian Murdoch, "Rome’s Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest"
English | ISBN: 0750940166 | 2009 | 256 pages | AZW3, EPUB | 457 KB + 380 KB
Over four days at the beginning of September AD 9, half of Rome’s Western army was ambushed in a German forest and annihilated. Three legions, three cavalry units and six auxiliary regiments-some 25,000 men-were wiped out. It dealt a body blow to the empire’s imperial pretensions and was Rome’s greatest defeat. No other battle stopped the Roman empire dead in its tracks. From the moment of the Teutoburg Forest disaster, the Rhine, rather than the Elbe as the Romans had hoped, became the limit of the civilized world. Rome’s expansion in northern Europe was checked and Rome anxiously patrolled the Rhineland borders, awaiting further uprisings from Germania. Although one of the most significant and dramatic battles in European history, this is also one that has been largely overlooked. Drawing on primary sources and a vast wealth of new archeological evidence, Adrian Murdoch brings to life the battle itself, the historical background, and the effects of the Roman defeat as well as exploring the personalities of those who took part.

Free Download Arlette Jouanna, "The Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre: The mysteries of a crime of state"
English | ISBN: 071909755X | 2015 | 288 pages | PDF | 4 MB
On 18 August 1572, Paris hosted the lavish wedding of Marguerite de Valois and Henri de Navarre, which was designed to seal the reconciliation of France’s Catholics and Protestants. Only six days later, the execution of the Protestant leaders on the orders of the king’s council unleashed a vast massacre by Catholics of thousands of Protestants in Paris and elsewhere. Why was the celebration of concord followed so quickly by such unrestrained carnage?

Free Download Brian McGinty, "The Oatman Massacre: A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival"
English | 2005 | pages: 273 | ISBN: 0806136677 | PDF | 2,6 mb
The Oatman massacre is among the most famous and dramatic captivity stories in the history of the Southwest. In this riveting account, Brian McGinty explores the background, development, and aftermath of the tragedy.

Free Download The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: Honoring the Forgotten Voice, Healing the Deep Wounds by Chronicle Press
English | May 17, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0C5N7L6VK | 49 pages | EPUB | 2.90 Mb
Travel back in time to the lively and successful Greenwood District, often known as Black Wall Street, and rediscover how African American families and business owners overcame tremendous obstacles to build a thriving community there. But while racial tensions were rising to a boiling point, an unthinkable tragedy was taking place. Investigate the terrifying events that took place on May 31, 1921, when racial violence broke out, leaving behind a path of destruction and loss.

Free Download Greg Bailey, "The Herrin Massacre of 1922: Blood and Coal in the Heart of America"
English | ISBN: 1476681716 | 2020 | 178 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
In 1922, a coal miner strike spread across the United States, swallowing the heavily-unionized mining town of Herrin, Illinois. When the owner of the town’s local mine hired non-union workers to break the strike, violent conflict broke out between the strikebreakers and unionized miners, who were all heavily armed. When strikebreakers surrendered and were promised safe passage home, the unionized miners began executing them before large, cheering crowds.

Free Download The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine: The Mass Killing that Changed the World by Ivan Katchanovski
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 277 Pages | ISBN : 3031671201 | 21.9 MB
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Maidan massacre in Ukraine. It uses a theoretical framework of rational choice, moral hazard, state- repression backfire, and Weberian ideas about rational action to explore the massacre.

Free Download Ari Kelman, "A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek"
English | ISBN: 0674045858 | 2013 | 384 pages | PDF | 389 MB
In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John Chivington, surprised hundreds of Cheyenne and Arapaho people camped on the banks of Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado Territory. More than 150 Native Americans were slaughtered, the vast majority of them women, children, and the elderly, making it one of the most infamous cases of state-sponsored violence in U.S. history. A Misplaced Massacre examines the ways in which generations of Americans have struggled to come to terms with the meaning of both the attack and its aftermath, most publicly at the 2007 opening of the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site.

Free Download J. Francis Watson, "Massacre at Duffy’s Cut: Tragedy and Conspiracy on the Pennsylvania Railroad (True Crime)"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1467139084 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 3.8 mb
Fifty-seven Irish immigrant laborers arrived in the port of Philadelphia in June 1832 to work on Pennsylvania’s Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad. They all perished within six weeks.

Free Download The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War By Greg Grandin
2011 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0226306909 | PDF | 4 MB
After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin America. Since the triumph of Castro, politicians and historians have accused the left there of rejecting democracy, embracing communist totalitarianism, and prompting both revolutionary violence and a right-wing backlash. Through unprecedented archival research and gripping personal testimonies, Greg Grandin powerfully challenges these views in this classic work. In doing so, he uncovers the hidden history of the Latin American Cold War: of hidebound reactionaries holding on to their power and privilege; of Mayan Marxists blending indigenous notions of justice with universal ideas of equality; and of a United States supporting new styles of state terror throughout the region.With Guatemala as his case study, Grandin argues that the Latin American Cold War was a struggle not between political liberalism and Soviet communism but two visions of democracy-one vibrant and egalitarian, the other tepid and unequal-and that the conflict’s main effect was to eliminate homegrown notions of social democracy. Updated with a new preface by the author and an interview with Naomi Klein, The Last Colonial Massacre is history of the highest order-a work that will dramatically recast our understanding of Latin American politics and the role of the United States in the Cold War and beyond."This work admirably explains the process in which hopes of democracy were brutally repressed in Guatemala and its people experienced a civil war lasting for half a century."-International History Review"A richly detailed, humane, and passionately subversive portrait of inspiring reformers tragically redefined by the Cold War as enemies of the state."-Journal of American History

Free Download Bath Massacre: America’s First School Bombing By Arnie Bernstein
2009 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0472033468 | EPUB | 1 MB
"With the meticulous attention to detail of a historian and a storyteller’s eye for human drama, Bernstein shines a beam of truth on a forgotten American tragedy. Heartbreaking and riveting."—Gregg Olsen, New York Times best-selling author of Starvation Heights"A chilling and historic character study of the unfathomable suffering that desperation and fury, once unleashed inside a twisted mind, can wreak on a small town. Contemporary mass murderers Timothy McVeigh, Columbine’s Dylan Klebold, and Virginia Tech’s Seung-Hui Cho can each trace their horrific genealogy of terror to one man: Bath school bomber Andrew Kehoe."—Mardi Link, author of When Evil Came to Good Hart On May 18, 1927, the small town of Bath, Michigan, was forever changed when Andrew Kehoe set off a cache of explosives concealed in the basement of the local school. Thirty-eight children and six adults were dead, among them Kehoe, who had literally blown himself to bits by setting off a dynamite charge in his car. The next day, on Kehoe’s farm, what was left of his wife—burned beyond recognition after Kehoe set his property and buildings ablaze—was found tied to a handcart, her skull crushed. With seemingly endless stories of school violence and suicide bombers filling today’s headlines, Bath Massacre serves as a reminder that terrorism and large-scale murder are nothing new.