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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.
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