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    The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

    By Dan Carlin

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    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology ever peak or regress? And why, since the dawn of time, has it always seemed as though death and destruction are waiting just around the corner?

    Combining his trademark thrilling, expansive storytelling with rigorous history and thought experiment, Dan Carlin connects past with future to explore the tipping points of collapsing civilisations – from the plague to nuclear war.

    Looking across every brush with apocalypse, crisis and collapse, this book also weighs, knowing all we do about human patterns, whether our world is likely to become a ruin for future archaeologists to dig up and explore.

    FROM THE CREATOR OF THE AWARD-WINNING, 100+ MILLION DOWNLOAD PODCAST HARDCORE HISTORY

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateOct 29, 2019
    ISBN9780008340940
    Author

    Dan Carlin

    Pioneering podcaster Dan Carlin is the king of long-form audio content. With his Hardcore History shows sometimes topping out at over six hours long, Carlin humanizes the past and forces the audience to “walk a mile in that other guy’s historical moccasins.” Hardcore History has been downloaded over 100 million times.

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      I love Dan Carlin's 'Hard Core History' Podcasts. So I picked this up. It's equally good, but I can't help but think I would have enjoyed it more as a podcast? It's fine for what it is and it covers a decent number of little-known historical facts combined with the theme that society is always on the brink of collapse. Cheery stuff, really. If you read this and like I advise you listen to 'The End Of The World' podcast with Josh Clark.