Generally, I hate that alternative history novelist Harry Turtledove. His prose are awful. His plots are ponderous and overcrowded, and his characters are stilted. But it was worth going through all of his books in the Settling Accounts series just to see Jimmah killed by negro partisan fighters while he was still just a young man.
I have only a very thin recollection of the Settling Accounts series. I did not read them.
I guess reading what you mentioned could be cathartic. ;-)