\'F*cking brilliant\' Sarah Knight\'Very funny\' Mark Watson 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. 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 .
Both readable and entertaining\' The Telegraph \'Chronicles humanity\'s myriad follies down the ages with malicious glee and much wit ... 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: \'A light-touch History of moments when Humans have got it spectacularly wrong...
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...
Art, science, culture, trade - on the evolutionary food chain, we\'re real winners. \'F*cking brilliant\' Sarah Knight\'Very funny\' Mark Watson 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
