Best-seller history repeats itself with this dynamic new "almanac" format that broadens the scope and content of the Worst-Case Scenario handbooks. The Worst-Case Scenario Almanac: History offers step-by-step illustrated scenarios on how to win a joust, survive in a dungeon, and overcome other plights of yesteryear, but the volume also features hundreds of pages of additionaland hilariousinformation in the form of lists (the worst jobs to have during the Industrial Revolution), offbeat profiles (Attila the Hun, Idi Amin), Worst-Case Wisdom (bad advice), descriptions of disasters narrowly averted, and much more. Packed with charts, graphs, maps, and timelines, The Worst-Case Scenario Almanac: History is an invigorating look at all that's gone wrong in the past and the best way to prepare for the future.
This book was certainly a much more interesting read than the other books in the Worst Case Scenario series. The other books simply have been a number of scenarios and solutions for said scenarios. However this book does something different. Some historical scenarios come with the historical solutions, and then with an modern day solution. Dispersed within the scenarios are short stories about various events and individuals in history, with some little known facts about them. For example, Caligula was once an enlightened ruler before a sickness caused the madness that we know him so well for. And with each historical anecdote was a lesson to be learned. This book is also ideal for bathroom reading as each section is a fairly quick read.
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