The pyramids were already 2,000 years old when Herodotus visited them in the middle of the fifth century BC, but he found the Egyptians still told tales of misery about their construction, the horrors suffered by the populace.

No one could possibly quantify the horrors suffered in Romania before the violent downfall of Nicolae Ceausescu, the Communist dictator who, along with his wife, terrorized the nation for years until he was ousted and executed on December 25, 1989.

"Members of the younger generation do not even know that Koreans served in Vietnam," said Ahn Jungyo, a veteran and the author of the book, which depicts the horrors suffered by one group of soldiers.

In a two-part, four-billion-column-inch Washington Post story detailing the horrors suffered by Lattimore, the sole suggestion of any professional harm is a bald allegation that Lattimore's annual lecture at Harvard met with "resistance."

As Angelou had done in her previous autobiographies, she uses elements of the African-American slave narrative, including as Lupton puts it, "the journey, the quest for freedom; [and] empathy for the horrors suffered by slaves".

Twenty-eight hours of horror suffered by a woman handcuffed to a bedpost.

This book examines, with scathing inquiry, the horrors and desperation suffered by the Bosnian people.

Having taught junior high and high school history entering politics, Mr. Spano said he was quite aware of the horrors suffered by the Irish people in 1845 when the potato crop failed and approximately 1.5 million people died of starvation.

Twenty-eight hours of horror suffered by a woman chained to a bedpost after her husband has a heart attack.