The Pessimist's Guide to History: An Irresistible Compendium Of Catastrophes, Barbarities, Massacres And Mayhem From The Big Bang To The New Millennium
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060957452 (006095745X)
ASIN: 006095745X
Publish date: June 20th 2000
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
This is one of the most entertaining and (sadly) accurate books I've ever read. If all the history books that were put under my nose in school resembled this, I'd have learned a lot faster and with a lot more will than I did.That's not all it is, though: this is funny. For someone who has real troub...
Light, quick and an easy way to gain some basic facts to boost your Trivial Pursuit score and give others the impression that you were a couple credits shy of a History major.