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.
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