"[This volume] will certainly be considered a milestone on the path toward a more sophisticated analysis of a key feature of human cruelty - [Its] goal is exploration and inspiration of further research in and discussion of the history of massacres - [It] does an excellent job in doing exactly this, and I am sure it will serve for a long time as a major reference book in the broader field of mass violence studies." * Thomas Kuhne, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University.