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Deadly Dictators: Masterminds of twentieth century genocides by Stafford, Terry, author is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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One hundred million people died in twentieth century wars, but during the same period, more than a quarter of a billion people were murdered by their own governments. This human catastrophe is the subject of Deadly Dictators: Masterminds of Twentieth Century Genocides. This thought-provoking chronology explores the lives and crimes of Joseph Stalin, father of the Soviet Gulag; Dominican dictator Raphael Trujillo, who committed serial sexual violation of his nation's women; Adolf Hitler, the Nazi fanatic who unleashed the Holocaust; the Kims of North Korea, who imposed a savage slavery on their people; Mao Zedong, the last emperor of China, who starved tens of millions; the Duvaliers of Haiti, who used Voudou hit squads in their vicious repression; Idi Amin, who launched a tribally-based genocide in Uganda; Pol Pot, the Cambodian ideologue who cultivated the "Killing Fields;" Saddam Hussein, who exterminated Iraqi citizens with nerve agents and Thoneste Bagosora, the architect of the apocalypse in Rwanda that slaughtered 800,000 people in only one hundred days.
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- Author
- Stafford, Terry, author
- Publisher
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781450531979
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.8 / 5 (13 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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