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“Entertaining overview of monumental mistakes that changed human history.” – Publishers WeeklyExplore the failures, mistakes, and missed opportunities that shaped the botched attempt to create a life-extending elixir that produced gunpowder to the unsuccessful stint in medical school that led to a career in naturalism for Charles Darwin, to the missile detection system malfunction that almost sparked a nuclear war, the course of human history has often been shaped by failures of all 50 bite-sized chapters spanning thousands of years, A Short History of the World in 50 Failures details how the world as we know it has been defined by plans gone awry, opportunities not seized, and schemes that were always fated to end in it’s the pharaoh Akhenaten’s misplaced attempt to found a new religion or Napoleon’s doomed invasion of Russia, discover a fascinating collection of outsized tales and historical snafus that created the world as we know it today.
Author: Ben Gazur
Publisher: Michael O’Mara Books US
Published: 9/30/2025
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.7 lbs
Size: 7.1″ H x 5″ L x 1.3″ W
ISBN: 9781789297898
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