How long does it take to read Blood and Soil?
Ben Kiernan
Blood and Soil by Ben Kiernan takes about 13 hours 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 41 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2007. 746 pages, about 205,150 words.
28 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 22 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 41 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 33 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This book, the first global history of genocide and extermination from ancient times, examines outbreaks of mass violence from the classical era to the present, focusing on worldwide colonial exterminations and twentieth-century case studies including the Armenian genocide, the Nazi Holocaust, Stalin's mass murders, and the Cambodian and Rwandan genocides. Connections, patterns, and features are identified that in nearly every case gave early warning of the catastrophe to come. Racism or religious prejudice, territorial expansionism, and cults of antiquity and agrarianism are ideologies that have motivated perpetrators of mass killings in the past, and persist even in our new century. The author urges that we heed the rich historical evidence with its telltale signs for predicting and preventing future genocides.
Subjects: Crimes against humanity, Genocide, Massacres, murders, poisonings, Massamoorden, Racism, North America
