hey /his/ can anyone recommend some books that explain some

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also meant to preface, in honor of Columbus day.

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>>1794410
"The celebrated Umayyads elevated religious and political persecutions, inquisitions, beheadings, impalings, and crucifixions to heights unequaled by any other set of rulers before or after in Spain," Fernandez-Morera writes. They even crucified the dead, disinterring corpses of alleged Christians in order to desecrate them. They crucified fellow Muslims – at one point, seventy-two Muslim scholars of religious law.

Crucifixions were stage-designed to be "spectacular" and cause onlookers to "faint with horror." Some victims were sliced to death slowly: first hands, then feet, then heads. One victim was crucified on the Cordoba palace door. The corpses of black children hung from a well's ropes as a counterweight.

Not a book, but watch Hellstorm on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkQ6J5F01Do

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>>1794445

Norman Cohm's Europe's Inner Demons.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
Thucydides' History of the Pelopponesian War.
Blood Meridian.

>>1794424
As far as jaw-dropping horror goes, this is pretty vanilla.

doesn't have to be books. youtube, wikipedia. sorry /his/ my first post and I failed

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>>1794410
Soviet tanks drive right over German refugees who have survived hell and come so close to salvation, or so they think, in the Allied occupation zone--more aptly described as the Allied destruction zone. The refugees are now just bloodied pulps in the snow, flattened like dough by the tank treks. The Soviet tanks trudge on without even so much as a pause. A German refugee ship capsizes after it is hit by a Soviet torpedo or bombed in an American air strike. All aboard scream and struggle to stay alive; they've made it so far, but the vast majority are forced to call the sea their final resting place. Bodies are everywhere in the water. There are literally thousands. Mothers, brothers, sisters, cousins, POWs, and even tiny infants who have just transitioned to life outside the womb and have breathed air for the first time--all dead in a matter of minutes. Some drowned. Many were crushed or torn apart by the rudders. Others froze to death. The sea was awash in human blood and body parts after each and every one of these attacks on refugee ships. No German was innocent. Not one.

This happened to numerous refugee ships. Many aboard were Allied POWs and Jewish camp refugees who had been protected by the fleeing German SS and Wehrmacht men--murdered by their own nation; murdered by their own race.

American pilots swoop down on exposed civilians and refugees in the vast clearing below. They open fire. They actually shoot individual human beings as though they are hunting wild horses or wolves in order to cull them. Machine gun bullets rip into the backs of civilians who had just barely escaped with their lives from the fiery Holocaust that was the city. The holes are the size of baseballs. Hundreds are mowed down instantly or are injured by the fire and debris--nearly all are left to die slow, agonizing deaths in that clearing.

>>1794410
"The Bloody White Baron"

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>>1794410
Totally misread and saw jew instead of jaw

>>1794456
What a bunch of Dicks desu

>>1794410
One Soldier's War in Chechnya, by Arkady Babchenko.