A Short History of the World in 50 Failures

<p><b>The bestselling alternative history series in bite-sized chapters. Thoroughly researched and entertaining. This is history … but not as you know it.</b></p><p><b>Explore the failures, mistakes and missed opportunities that shaped history in this captivating entry in the bestselling series.</b></p><p>From 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, the course of human history has so often been shaped by failures of all magnitudes.</p><p>In<b> fifty bite-sized chapters</b> spanning <b>thousands of years</b>, <i>A Short History of the World in 50 Failures</i> details how the world as we know it has been defined by plans gone awry, opportunities not seized upon and schemes that were always fated to end in catastrophe.</p><p>Whether it’s Louis XVI’s fated guillotine death or Napoleon’s doomed invasion of Russia, discover<b> a fascinating collection of outsized tales and historical snafus </b>that created the world as we know it today.</p><p><b>Also available:</b><Br><i>A Short History of the World in 50 Conspiracies</i> (9781789299076)<Br><i>A Short History of the World in 50 Murders </i>(9781789297737)<Br><i>A Short History of the World in 50 Tyrants </i>(9781789298437)<Br><i>A Short History of the World in 50 Lies</i> (9781789294606)<Br><i>A Short History of the World in 50 Places</i> (9781789291971)<Br><i>A Short History of the World in 50 Animals</i> (9781789292954)<Br><i>A Short History of the World in 50 Books</i> (9781789294088)</p>