Title: Entertaining read crippled by lack of documentation.
Product review: Mr. Ponting has written a fascinating study. However, he has NO citations in a work that on nearly every page offers a variety of specific statistics to back up his claims. Just one example---most of the books written about WWII since 1945 have accepted a loss of life at roughly 50 million dead. Ponting claims that 85 MILLION died....and offers no proof of this. He doesn't even list a bibliography! Just "recommended reading." In short, this book contradicts almost everything else I've read about the subject, and backs up none of it with fact.
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