My name is Joseph Cummins and I am the author of The World’s Bloodiest History. I appreciate your generally positive review of my book, even if there are historical points where we disagree. However, I feel compelled to point out that your statement that “the author accepts the common fallacy that the Romans actually salted the earth to prevent crops from growing in Carthage’s surrounding area” is false. What I actually say in the book, on page 23, is the opposite; I point out that “it is a latter invention that he [Scipio] cursed the city and sowed its fields with salt.”
Sincerely, Joseph Cummins