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Matthew White, Atrocities: The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History, W. W. Norton Company 2013 (disponible sur Kindle). Atrocities is an interesting book, not only in the short sections describing all these horrors, but also in some of the conclusions (“What I Found: Analysis”): hereditary monarchs were definitely safer than “talented evils” (pp. 538-539), “every Communist regime in history killed huge numbers of its own people … when death and destruction have followed every single Communist regime ever established, there would seem to be a flaw somewehere in the system” (“The Black Chapter of Communism”, p. 453).
Therefore it is shocking to read that, as an exception of the safer hereditary monarch rule, King Leopold II of Belgium was in the Free State of...
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