Matthew White The Great Big Book of Horrible Things (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Great Big Book of Horrible ThingsCondition: NewSubtitle: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst AtrocitiesISBN-10: 0393081923EAN: 9780393081923ISBN: 9780393081923Publisher: WW Norton & CoFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 02/17/2012Description: Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White's epic examination of history's one hundred most violent events, or, in White's piquant phrasing, "the numbers that people want to argue about." Reaching back to 480 BCE's second Persian War, White moves chronologically through history to this century's war in the Congo and devotes chapters to each event, where he surrounds hard facts (time and place) and succinct takeaways (who usually gets the blame?) with lively military, social, and political histories. With the eye of a seasoned statistician, White assigns each entry a ranking based on body count, and in doing so he gives voice to the suffering of ordinary people that, inexorably, has defined every historical epoch. By turns droll, insightful, matter-of-fact, and ultimately sympathetic to those who died, The Great Big Book of Horrible Things gives readers a chance to reach their own conclusions while offering a stark reminder of the darkness of the human heart.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 244mmItem Length: 188mmItem Width: 51mmItem Weight: 1218gAuthor: Matthew WhiteGenre: HistoryType: MilitaryRelease Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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