HUMANS;A BRIEF HISTORY OF HOW WE F*CKED IT ALL UP PB – TOM PHILLIPS

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