Quote of the day
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.
Clive Ponting

Born: April 13, 1946
Died: July 28, 2020 (aged 74)
Bio: Clive Sheridan Ponting was a senior civil servant, best known for leaking documents about the sinking of the Belgrano in the Falklands War. He was the author of a number of revisionist books on British and world history.
Known for:
- A New Green History of the World (1991)
- World History - A New Perspective (2000)
- 1940: Myth and Reality (1990)
- The Crimean War (2004)
- The twentieth century (1998)






