Atrocities
The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History
by Matthew White
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, History, and Nonfiction.
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 the Second Persian War in 480 BCE and moving chronologically through history, White surrounds hard facts (time and place)...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, History, and Nonfiction.
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Steven Pinker
“This chronicle of history?s hundred deadliest wars and massacres, including death tolls, is a good way to settle bets (who was worse, Genghis Khan or Hitler), brush up your history, and marvel at the cruelty and stupidity of our species. | This chronicle of history’s hundred deadliest wars and massacres, including death tolls, is a good way to settle bets (who was worse, Genghis Khan or Hitler), brush up your history, and marvel at the cruelty and stupidity of our species.”
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