I am listening to Buglosi’s book right now, I suspect there are several reasons the book is that long (this is only a guess:):
1.) There are a lot of photographs and diagrams in the book. I have only seen the book in a bookstore, but there were a lot of discolorations on the edge of the pages indicating photographs.
2.) He is retelling the events in a novelistic narrative, which is entertaining and informative, but takes more space.
Read this review, - it explains in detail why the book is so long, - and inaccurate.
Address:http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/pp/07154/790575.stm