Jacob F. Field
The World's Gruesome History
Price: £7.99
Imprint: O'Mara Books
Publication date: 07/01/2016
ISBN: 9781782435129
Subject: Non-Fiction
Binding: Paperback
Size: Other
Extent: 192 pages
Territorial Rights: World
Edition Status: Out of Print
Imprint: O'Mara Books
Publication date: 20/09/2012
ISBN: 9781843178842
Subject: Non-Fiction
Binding: Hardback
Size: Other
Extent: 192 pages
Territorial Rights: World (All Languages)
Edition Status: Out of Print
Imprint: O'Mara Books
Publication date: 06/09/2012
ISBN: 9781843179184
Subject: Non-Fiction
Size: EPUB 2
Extent: 192 pages
Illustration: black and white illustrations throughout
Territorial Rights: World
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Lively, incisive and informed, One Bloody Thing After Another sheds light on some of history's darkest corners
Moves chronologically through the ages of torment, from the Crusades and medieval dungeons to the Reign of Terror and witch trials
Includes biographies of scandalous figures such as Vlad the Impaler and Emperor Caligula, as well as the gruesome history behind The Massacre of Beziers
Dr Jacob F. Field is a historian and writer who was a contributor to 1001 Historic Sites and 1001 Battles. He is the author of One Bloody Thing After Another: The World's Gruesome History, and We Shall Fight on the Beaches: The Speeches That Inspired History, both published by Michael O'Mara Books. He studied for his undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford, and then moved to Newcastle University for his PhD, where he completed a thesis on the Great Fire of London. He then worked as a research associate at the University of Cambridge.