Author(s): Phillips, Tom,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 04/04/2019,
Pagination: 320 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Wildfire,
Published By: Headline Publishing Group,
Book Classification: Social & cultural history, History of ideas, Humour, General & world history
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781472259059
Description: 

AN EXHILARATING JOURNEY THROUGH THE MOST CREATIVE AND CATASTROPHIC F*CK-UPS OF HUMAN HISTORY

In the seventy thousand years that modern human beings have walked this earth, we've come a long way.

Art, science, culture, trade - on the evolutionary food chain, we're real winners. But, frankly, it's not exactly been plain sailing, and sometimes - just occasionally - we've managed to really, truly, quite unbelievably f*ck things up. From Chairman Mao's Four Pests Campaign, to the American Dustbowl; from the Austrian army attacking itself one drunken night, to the world's leading superpower electing a reality TV mogul as President...

it's pretty safe to say that, as a species, we haven't exactly grown wiser with age. So, next time you think you've really f*cked up, this book will remind you: it could be so much worse...