THE GREAT PERSECUTORS

Hardback. The author analyses the men behind the terrors and the terrors themselves. Amritsar, Sharpeville, the Tsarist 'Bloody Sunday', the purges of Stalin, the butchering of the royal family in Iraq, Japan's rule by torture during World War II, and many other cases of the abuse of power are examined. At the same time the so-called massacres are objectively discussed and the question is put: what would you have done if you had been faced with a mob in the mood for violence? The author also points out that while a man may be a hero to his own people he may be a persecutor to those over whom he has dominion, citing General Gordon as an example. With Index. 160pp. 8vo. h/back. F. in Vg+ dw. which has faded sp.