A Disastrous History Of The World: Chronicles of war, earthquake, plague and flood - Softcover

Withington, John

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9780749909796: A Disastrous History Of The World: Chronicles of war, earthquake, plague and flood

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ISBN 10: 074990979X ISBN 13: 9780749909796

Publisher: Piatkus Books, 2010

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Tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, bird flu, international terrorism - the world seems to get more dangerous by the day. Or does it? John Withington's disturbing yet fascinating new book describes the worst things that have happened on Earth from the dawn of man to the present day.

Part One chronicles all the major natural calamities - floods and earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes and typhoons, plague and famine. Part Two describes in compelling detail the greatest man-made disasters - war and invasion, air raids, massacres, riots and terrorism, fires and explosions, shipwrecks, and air and train crashes.

John Withington takes the reader on an epic journey through the annals of the nastiest things to have afflicted mankind. Out of all this horror, he has somehow fashioned a compulsively readble and entertaining book.

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Review:

The publisher seems to be pushing its luck by describing this haul of "the nastiest things to have afflicted humanity" as "compulsively readable and entertaining". Weirdly enough, this is spot on. Withington's eye for detail enlivens what might otherwise be a morbid litany (INDEPENDENT, December 2010)

Book Description:

A compulsively readable collection of all the nastiest things that have afflicted mankind

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