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Calamities & Catastrophes: The Ten Absolutely Worst Years in History
Calamities & Catastrophes: The Ten Absolutely Worst Years in History
Calamities & Catastrophes: The Ten Absolutely Worst Years in History
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Calamities & Catastrophes: The Ten Absolutely Worst Years in History

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They say that history is written by the winners. Not according to Derek Wilson.

In this fascinating, revelatory book, Wilson tells the story from the point of view of the losers – collating a catalogue of calamities and catastrophes that have shaped our world more than historians tend to let on.

In ten lucid and entertaining chapters, the author identifies the very worst years of human history, from the destruction of the Roman Empire in 541 to the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War in 1865, from the march on Leningrad in 1942 to the Vietnam War of 1968. Condensing two thousand years of war, plague, misrule and political villainy, he identifies the traitors, scumbags and villains, whose lust for power – and sometimes, sheer incompetence – brought such terror to their times. He delves into the natural forces beyond human control that have wiped out whole peoples. And, most of all, he shows how history has a horrible habit of repeating itself.
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Release dateDec 4, 2012
ISBN9781476718842
Calamities & Catastrophes: The Ten Absolutely Worst Years in History
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Derek Wilson

Popular historian Derek Wilson came to prominence 40 years ago with A Tudor Tapestry. He is the highly acclaimed author of over 50 books and has written and presented numerous television and radio programmes. He lives and writes in Devon.

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