Scary American History Facts

ISBN-13: 9783565090068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 200 str.

Auke de Haan

Opis

America's shiny story cracks open to rot underneath: colonists starving in Jamestown winters till they gnawed boots and bones, or the 1918 flu stacking bodies like cordwood in Philadelphia streets while masks muffled the moans. These facts aren't bedtime reads-they're the stuff of nightmares, like the government's syphilis shots on unwitting Tuskegee men, watching them waste away for "science." It's a haul of horrors where every chapter peels back the varnish on "manifest destiny," revealing trails slick with more than just pioneer sweat.Flip deeper, and the shadows lengthen: Civil War surgeons sawing limbs without a drop of ether, screams echoing over bloody fields, or the Donner Party's Sierra snows turning kin into stew when wagons bogged down. Atomic tests in Nevada lit up skies but left locals coughing fallout for decades, hidden in classified ink. This book's your flashlight through the muck, facts that grip like a grave robber's hook, showing how the stars and stripes wave over graves dug deeper than textbooks dare.Yet these terrors shaped the grit: from midnight lynchings that scarred Southern oaks to UFO whispers over Roswell ranches that still fuel bar bets. Start reading if you're wired for the unflinching-it's a reminder that America's pulse beats half in pride, half in the pulse of the undead past.

America's shiny story cracks open to rot underneath: colonists starving in Jamestown winters till they gnawed boots and bones, or the 1918 flu stacking bodies like cordwood in Philadelphia streets...