History's Worst Predictions & The People Who Made Them by Eric Chaline

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229mm x 169mm x 19mm

Pages: 256

Since the dawn of history, human civilisation has had its prophets, but whether they claim divine inspiration, employ scientific forecasting or economic modelling, or just use their own fertile imaginations, what they have in common is the ability to get things spectacularly wrong.