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==History==
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|author=Derek Wilson
|title=Calamities and Catastrophes: The Ten Absolutely Worst Years in History
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=As Wilson rightly points out, history is generally written by the winners. This book turns the tables by looking at ten of the worst episodes from the point of view of those who were on the losing side, from the sixth to the late twentieth centuries. Starting with the plague and war of 541-2 which accelerated the collapse of the Roman Empire, to the recent Rwandan genocide in which the death toll over just a few months probably exceeded a million, history has had an uncomfortable habit of repeating itself.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907595457</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Roger Moorhouse
