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William Trevor was born in 1928. He is an Irish author and playwright, who has won the Whitbread Prize three times and has been nominated four times for the Booker Prize, most recently for his novel Love and Summer. Read Love and the Summer by William Trevor
Matthew White
Matthew White has worked as a law librarian for the past twenty years. In 1997 he began his online Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century, which won several awards in the early days of the internet. His database of atrocity statistics has become the most popular and widely cited section of the Atlas. Over the years, he has corresponded with many scholars, such as Steven Pinker and Martin Gilbert, and his research has been cited by forty-five published books and over eighty scholarly articles. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.
Featured Books, with extracts, by Matthew White
Atrocitology : Humanity's 100 Deadliest Achievements Matthew White
If we study history to avoid the mistakes of the past, then there can
be no more important place to start than this eye-opening and
entertaining book. In this wholly original and remarkably ambitious work, 'Atrocitologist'
Matthew White considers man's... Format: Hardback - Released: 20/10/2011
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