The Pessimist's Guide to History 3e: An Irresistible Compendium of Catastrophes, Barbarities, Massacres, and Mayhem--From 14 Billion Years Ago to 2007 by Doris Flexner, Stuart Berg Flexner

The Pessimist's Guide to History 3e: An Irresistible Compendium of Catastrophes, Barbarities, Massacres, and Mayhem--From 14 Billion Years Ago to 2007

Doris Flexner, Stuart Berg Flexner

499 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

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The classic irreverent look at the past--now updated with even more appalling facts Fourteen billion or so years ago, the Big Bang exploded--and it's been downhill from there. For every spectacular discovery throughout history, there have been hun...

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