The pessimist's guide to history
Subtitle: an irresistible compendium of catastrophes, barbarities, massacres, and mayhem -- from 14 billion years ago to 2007
By: Doris Flexner and Stuart Berg Flexner.
Contributors: Flexner, Stuart Berg.
Edition: Updated ed.
Publisher: Collins
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 499
ISBN-13: 9780061431012
Subjects: World history.; Disasters.; Chronology, Historical.
Notes: "3rd ed., First Collins ed."--T.p. verso.