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The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities

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  • "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."
  • "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."@es
  • "Evangelistas del progreso humano cumplen su contrario en el Mateo Blanco exploración épica de cien eventos de la historia más violentas o, en frases picantes de White, los números que la gente quiere discutir. Que se remonta a 480 segundos guerra persa BCE, White mueve cronológicamente la historia de la guerra de este siglo en el Congo y dedica capítulos a cada evento, donde se rodea datos (tiempo y lugar) y comida para llevar breves (que por lo general tiene la culpa?) Con animadas historias militares, sociales y políticos. Con el ojo de un estadístico experimentado, Blanco asigna a cada entrada de la clasificación basada en número de muertos, y al hacerlo le da voz al sufrimiento de la gente común que, inexorablemente, se definen cada época histórica. Por turnos gracioso, perspicaz, materia-de-hecho, y en última instancia favorable a los que murieron, el gran libro de las cosas horribles que ofrece a los lectores la oportunidad de llegar a sus propias conclusiones, mientras que ofrece un claro recordatorio de la oscuridad del corazón humano."@es

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  • "The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities"
  • "The great big book of horrible things : the definitive chronicle of history's 100 worst atrocities"
  • "El libro negro de la humanidad : crónica de las grandes atrocidades de la historia"@es

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