Scary European History Facts: Shadows of Suffering (Scary History Facts) - Couverture souple

Skriuwer.com; Auke; Fathy, Yahia; Joseph, Jennifer

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798312391947

Editeur : Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

What if the history of European civilization was built on far more cruelty than most people realize? This book exposes 2,000 years of hidden horrors, from Spartan infanticide and Roman arena punishments to witch burnings, plague pits, and wars so devastating that survivors resorted to cannibalism. It's not a sanitized textbook. It's the raw, documented reality of what shaped a continent.

Across its chapters, this large print edition traces the darkest practices of European history and the societies that produced them. You'll find Viking blood eagle rituals, medieval plague doctors in beaked masks stuffed with rotting herbs, Inquisition torture chambers designed to extract confessions through unimaginable pain, and guillotine executions where dulled blades required multiple strikes. The Thirty Years' War chapters cover besieged villages where children were sold for bread and starvation drove people to the worst extremes imaginable. Every account is historically verified and drawn from trial records, eyewitness testimony, and archaeological evidence. The 7x10" large print format keeps the dense detail easy to read.

What's inside:

• Ancient cruelty: Spartan elders disposing of infants deemed too weak, and Roman arenas where punishments were designed as public entertainment
• Medieval horror: Viking ritual killings, plague "cures" that did nothing, and the torture devices used by Inquisitors to root out supposed heresy
• Witch hunts: how thousands of women were condemned on the flimsiest evidence, and the methods used to find the so-called Devil's Mark
• War at its worst: cannibalism during the Thirty Years' War, Ottoman biological warfare using plague corpses, and Napoleonic soldiers building bridges from the dead
• Revolutionary violence: the guillotine's grim reality, soldiers drinking gunpowder to suppress fear, and the human cost behind every major European conflict

Reader review:
"The chapters on the Thirty Years' War broke me. Cannibalism in besieged villages, children sold for a loaf of bread. I knew European history was violent, but the documented detail here goes far beyond what I'd encountered before. The large print made it impossible to skim past the hard parts. Important reading, but not for the faint-hearted." Elena V.

This book is for readers who want European history with nothing hidden. Two thousand years of documented cruelty, from ancient arenas to revolutionary terror, told honestly and backed by historical records. Large print edition for comfortable reading through even the most difficult chapters.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798312391947
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• Nombre de pages: 197
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.de/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg