An anatomy of terror : a history of terrorism / Andrew Sinclair.

Ancient terrors -- The texts of holy terror -- The horror of the Crusades -- The old man of the mountains -- The Anabaptists and millennial terror -- Sacred terror and the French religious wars -- Beast and pest : the origins of bioterror -- The outlaw and the guerrilla -- The illuminati and the French Revolution -- The terror -- Nationalist secret societies -- The early art and literature of terror -- Black terror -- Terror and the warrior -- Thuggee -- The secret societies of China -- The anarchists -- The anarchy of the west -- The Ku Klux Klan -- The Mafia -- The Irish Rebellion -- State terror and the Bolsheviks -- The revolt of labour -- The psychology of world war -- The road to Barcelona -- The failed American revolution -- The shame of Japan -- Fear, strange mercy and annihilation -- The final solution -- African secret societies -- The Gulag lies -- The forced refugees -- The problem of Palestine -- The killing fields of Asia -- Guevara : swimming in a dry sea -- The broadcast of horror -- The unused deterrence -- Ethnic terror -- Return to holy war -- Revenge of Islam -- Countdown to Kabul -- The future of terror.