There is a great oak out written by author Mathew White called "The Great Big Book of Horrible Things", and it basically is a wild book ranking history's atrocities from wars throughout the ages.one can get a better nderstanding of the paranoid nature of Chinese and Russian thought and literature through the years just by reading what has happened to the two countries through e centuries. Mr White is foremost data collector of these death tragedies in and out of the actual battlefields during time of historical warfare.This is an interesting informative look at the casualties humanity has suffered through various despots we have seen through the ages. The various ethnic cleansing, invasions, battles, massacres, disappearances, are all counted and tallied from everything to the Thirty Years Wars to the Taiping Rebellion.
In many of these chapters White concludes its impossible to get an actual count on the numbers killed and just writes many millions killed in this conflict.The death toll is studied relatively over from the author Mr White and at times it appears he actually is entertained and relishes the wars with the really big causality rates for soldiers and civilians. He does hold harsh words for the numerous dictators, religious fanatics, warlords, delusional kings, and crazy chiefs that initiated much of this warfare in the past for their own sense of glory and pride.
This is a good book as we come for on the centurion of one of the biggest death count conflicts the world has ever seen and the fact that World War I is to even in the top ten in rankings is something to be horrified by in is book. This author is also the founder and creator of a website called the Historical Atlas of the Twentieth century where he keeps more grisly battlefield counts and other civilian death tolls from the various violence of the past century.
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