Calamities & Catastrophes
Some new information, but mostly old information. Each chapter deals (rather briefly) with a different catastrophe or calamity in history, which the author as arbitrarily decided is the "worst year in history". One chapter gives a brief overview of the Justinian Plague, another one mentions the effect of the weather on wars and population movement, but most of the chapters deals with humans butchering each other. I would have liked to read more about the non-human factors (disease, weather, volcanoes etc) that cause havoc on human populations, rather than the all too common wars. I found each chapter rather bland and too brief.
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