- War crimes, History, Massacres, Atrocities
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."
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Epic, plot-driven, spare and bleak.
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- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Matthew White
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 669
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780393081923
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