Twisted history : 32 true stories of torture, traitors, sadists, and phychos plus the most celebrated saints in history

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781770855564 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1770855564 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
173 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Publisher: Buffalo, New York : Firefly Books, 2015.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Treachery & torture, saints & sinners, murder & mayhem"--Cover.

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.