List Of Writers

PONTING, CLIVE

Writer and academic. Formerly assistant secretary at the Ministry of Defence in the Thatcher administration, Clive Ponting came to prominence in 1984 when he admitted having leaked information to Labour MP, Tam Dalyell, about the sinking of the General Belgrano, a key incident in the Falklands War of 1982. He was charged under the Official Secrets Act and acquitted by a jury. The case was a milestone in British legal history.

Clive Ponting was a Reader in Politics at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is a specialist in environmental politics, political and military history, and the politics of sport. Clive has written numerous books including the world–wide bestseller A Green History of the World (Sinclair–Stevenson, 1991) and a highly controversial revisionist biography of Winston Churchill. He recently took early retirement and now lives on a small Greek island where he is creating a Mediterranean garden and cultivating olives.

Selected Publications:
The Right to Know: The Inside Story of the Belgrano Affair: Inside Story of the "Belgrano" Affair (Sphere Books, 1985)
Whitehall: Tragedy and Farce (Hamish Hamilton, 1986)
El derecho a saber: La historia secreta del hundimiento del Belgrano (Colección Libro elegido) (Atlántida, 1986)
Breach of Promise (Hamish Hamilton, 1989)
1940: Myth and Reality (Hamish Hamilton, 1990)
Secrecy in Britain (Historical Association Studies) (Blackwell, 1990)
A Green History of the World (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991)
Historia Verde del Mundo (Paidos Iberica, Ediciones S. A., 1993)
Armageddon: The Reality Behind the Distortions, Myths, Lies, and Illusions of World War II (Random House, 1995)
Churchill (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995)
Progress and Barbarism: The World in the Twentieth Century (Chatto and Windus, 1998)
The Pimlico History of the Twentieth Century (Pimlico, 1999)
The Twentieth Century: A World History (Henry Holt and Company, 1999)
A World History: A New Perspective (Chatto and Windus, 2000)
Thirteen Days: Diplomacy and Disaster - The Countdown to the Great War (Chatto and Windus, 2002)
The Crimean War: The Story Behind the Myth (Chatto and Windus, 2004)
Gunpowder: The Story (Chatto and Windus, 2005)