Massacres

On November 18 1978 the news from Guyana that 914 people had been found dead

If ever the phrase ‘cycle of sectarian violence’ had deadly meaning it was during Northern

In the late 1960s Northern Ireland was torn by factional violence between Catholic Nationalists and

In May 1970, soldiers of the Ohio National Guard fired 67 live rounds at a

In Mexico the coalition PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institutional) government had begun to confront the problems

America was bogged down in its anti-communist war against North Vietnam when in January 1968

Apartheid in South Africa became institutionalized in the 1940s and by 1960, under the government

The Republic of China (ROC) sounds impressive, but now consists only of Taiwan (formerly the

In 1939 Poland was a rabbit torn apart by wolves as Nazi Germany invaded from

Bath is an ordinary little town in rural Michigan, and May 18 1927 was an

During World War I the Sikh battalions indentured into the British Army won universal respect

The beautiful island of Bali is renowned for its glorious landscapes and beaches, palaces and

The beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota were, for the Lakota Sioux, a sacred spiritual

The Ottoman Empire once spanned three continents, but by the 19th century this lumbering behemoth

Not for the last time, Britons would discover that winning a prolonged war was no

By the first decade of the 19th century Australia was an established British colony, but

Siraj-ud Daulah became Nawab of Bengal in April 1756 at the age of 23, succeeding

Strictly speaking, the Jamestown massacre didn’t actually happen in Jamestown, the first English settlement in