Twisted history : 32 true stories of torture, traitors, sadists and psychos... plus the most celebrated Saints in history /
Twisted History brings to life the stories of 32 historical figures -- murderers, assassins and traitors who embraced the dark side, and martyrs and innocents who paid with their lives in the pursuit of good, all of whom changed world history.
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Buffalo, NY :
Firefly Books,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Treachery & torture. Brutus ; William Wallace ; Gilles de Rais ; Vlad the Impaler ; Richard III ; Guy Fawkes ; Benedict Arnold ; Adolf Eichmann ; Pierre Laval ; Lavrentiy Beria
- Saints & sinners. Judas Iscariot ; Nero ; Joan of Arc ; Tomás de Torquemada ; Thomas More ; René Goupil ; Rasputin ; Adolf Hitler ; Mahatma Gandhi ; Martin Luther King, Jr. ; Bernie Madoff
- Murder & mayhem. Blackbeard ; Dick Turpin ; Thug Behram ; John Wilkes Booth ; Billy the Kid ; Jack the Ripper ; H.H. Holmes ; Al Capone ; Kazuo Taoka ; Joseph Stalin ; Lee Harvey Oswald.