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8 unusual facts about Mike Dash


Jeronimus Cornelisz

In the historical work Batavia's Graveyard, which analyzes the incident in more detail than ever before based on research in Dutch archives (amongst other sources), author Mike Dash theorizes that Cornelisz was almost certainly a psychopath.

Mike Dash

Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny.

Dash authored a series of books covering incidents in the history of the Dutch East India Company, the Netherlands, India under British rule, and New York during the Progressive Era.

Dash's most recent book, The First Family, is a new history of Giuseppe Morello and the establishment of the Mafia in the United States.

Each focuses on a single event or series of events, among them the wreck of the East Indiaman Batavia, the Dutch tulip mania of 1634-1637, and the early years of the American Mafia.

Mystery airship

Historian Mike Dash described and summarized the 1896-1897 series of airship sightings, writing;

Reginald Bacon

Historian Mike Dash observes that while "there is no doubt that his mastery of the technology with which he dealt reinforced the independence of the submarine branch, he was a remote and stubborn centraliser who rarely admitted he needed help from anybody".

William J. Flynn

Petrosino's murder was never officially solved, but author/historian Mike Dash implicates the likely triggerman and his accomplice and says there is little doubt that Giuseppe Morello was behind it.



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