Author : Matthew White
Release : 2011-10-25
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 923/5 ( reviews)

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The Great Big Book of Horrible Things - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Big Book of Horrible Things write by Matthew White. This book was released on 2011-10-25. The Great Big Book of Horrible Things available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A compulsively readable and utterly original account of world history—from an atrocitologist’s point of view. 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.