An exhilarating journey through the most creative and catastrophic f*ck-ups in human history. Modern human beings have walked this earth for seventy thousand years, and 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, tFuly, quite unbelievably f*ck things up. From Chairman Mao's Four Pests Campaign, to … mehrthe American Dustbowl; from the Austrian army attacking itse!f 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 ... weniger