Humans

This book is brilliant. Utterly, utterly brilliant. Apart from the epilogue, which is idioticJeremy Clarkson

F*cking brilliantSarah 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, weve come a long way. Art, science, culture, trade - on the evolutionary food chain, were real winners. But, frankly, its not exactly been plain sailing, and sometimes - just occasionally - weve managed to really, truly, quite unbelievably f*ck things up.

From Chairman Maos Four Pests Campaign, to the American Dustbowl; from the Austrian army attacking itself one drunken night, to the worlds leading superpower electing a reality TV mogul as President... its pretty safe to say that, as a species, we havent exactly grown wiser with age.

So, next time you think youve really f*cked up, this book will remind you: it could be so much worse...


FURTHER PRAISE FOR HUMANS:

Very funnyMark Watson

A light-touch history of moments when humans have got it spectacularly wrong... Both readable and entertainingThe Telegraph

Chronicles humanitys myriad follies down the ages with malicious glee and much wit ... a rib-tickling page-turnerBusiness 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