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The End is Always Around the Corner: from Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Holocaust

(us) Dan Carlin

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The gold-medal podcast "Hardcore History" that has been downloaded over 100 million times around the world has been gathered for the first time. Since its English version was published in October 2019, it has been firmly on the New York Times bestseller list. If you only choose one book about the end of the world on your bookshelf, this is it! Will we become stronger in difficult times? Does the way we raise our children affect society as a whole? Can we wield powerful weapons without destroying ourselves? Will human abilities, knowledge, and technology continue to advance and never regress? What stories involving people happened when a civilization was collapsing? How will civilization end, how will we respond, and who might we become? This book reviews important events that have occurred in history, such as the collapse of great powers, outbreaks of plague, nuclear war crises, environmental disasters, and the end of civilization. It analyzes the possibility that such history will repeat itself in today's seemingly stable era, and explores the impact of historical drastic changes on reality and the future world. Author Dan Carlin uses counter-intuitive writing techniques to dramatically show the key changes in human history and open up a new way of telling history. He truly starts from a human perspective, making the past immediately relevant to the present, deviant yet profound, and the beauty of speculation can be seen everywhere. He uses solid historical materials and rich details to open the door to imagination and exploration for readers, and promote cognitive upgrades. Dan Carlin tells us: History does not always move forward; for many things in the past and present, the end is always close at hand.