How to Pronounce Clive Ponting
#20
Most Popular
Boost
Apr 01, 1946 78 years old
British historian
AriesClive Ponting - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
Clive Ponting, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Family, Facts, Age, Net Worth, Biography and More in FamedBorn.com
About Clive Ponting
- Clive Ponting (born 13 April 1946) is a former senior British civil servant and historian.
- He is known for having leaked documents about the sinking of the ARA General Belgrano in the Falklands War.
- At the time of his resignation from the civil service in 1985 he was a Grade 5 (assistant secretary) earning £23,000 per year.
- As an historian he has written a number of books on British and world history.
- Amongst his most influential work was a Green History of the World (1991), which was revised as A New Green History of the World in 2007, as well as a biography of Winston Churchill (1994) and 1940: Myth and Reality (1990).
- Two reviewers have referred to him as a revisionist historian.
