Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up

'This book is brilliant. Utterly, utterly brilliant' Jeremy Clarkson *'F\cking brilliant' Sarah Knight 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... FURTHER PRAISE FOR _HUMANS_: 'Very funny' Mark Watson 'A light-touch history of moments when humans have got it spectacularly wrong... Both readable and entertaining' _The Telegraph_ 'Chronicles humanity's myriad follies down the ages with malicious glee and much wit ... a rib-tickling page-turner' _Business Standard_ 'A timely, irreverent gallop through thousands of years of human stupidity'** Nicholas Griffin_, Ping-Pong Diplomacy: The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World_