HUMANS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HOW WE F*CKED IT ALL UP

This Book Is Brilliant. Utterly, Utterly Brilliant. Apart From The Epilogue, Which Is Idiotic Jeremy ClarksonF*Cking Brilliant Sarah Knightan Exhilarating Journey Through The Most Creative And Catastrophic F*CkUps Of Human Historyin 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 Funny Mark WatsonA LightTouch History Of Moments When Humans Have Got It Spectacularly Wrong... Both Readable And Entertaining The TelegraphChronicles HumanityS Myriad Follies Down The Ages With Malicious Glee And Much Wit ... A RibTickling PageTurner Business StandardA Timely, Irreverent Gallop Through Thousands Of Years Of Human Stupidity Nicholas Griffin, PingPong Diplomacy: The Secret History Behind The Game That Changed The World