A Short History of the World in 50 Failures

Taking the widest possible view of human and global history, A Short History of the World in 50 Failures offers a fascinating and entertaining alternative history of the world told through fifty of the greatest failures, catastrophes and missed opportunities ever to occur.

The bestselling alternative history series in bite-sized chapters. Thoroughly researched and entertaining. This is history but not as you know it.

Explore the failures, mistakes and missed opportunities that shaped history in this captivating entry in the bestselling series.

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.

In fifty bite-sized chapters spanning thousands of years, A Short Hist