Discusses the age-old origins of genocide, and recounts the destruction of the Native Americans, the massacre of the Armenians, the Ukrainian famine, the murder of Jews and others in the Holocaust, the killing fields of Cambodia, and contemporary examples such as Bosnia, Somalia, and Rwanda
An informative book on the history of genocide going back to the Inquisition and the Crusades and forward to Darfur region of western Sudan. While a horrible topic, it is a good book to learn some of the tragic events that have occurred in the world. And, it provides further reading material sources to further educate yourself on the topic.