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The End is Always Near

Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

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The End is Always Near

By: Dan Carlin
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology ever peak or regress? And why, since the dawn of time, has it always seemed as though death and destruction are waiting just around the corner?

Combining his trademark thrilling, expansive storytelling with rigorous history and thought experiment, Dan Carlin connects past with future to explore the tipping points of collapsing civilisations – from the plague to nuclear war.

Looking across every brush with apocalypse, crisis and collapse, this book also weighs, knowing all we do about human patterns, whether our world is likely to become a ruin for future archaeologists to dig up and explore.

FROM THE CREATOR OF THE AWARD-WINNING, 100+ MILLION DOWNLOAD PODCAST HARDCORE HISTORY

©2019 Dan Carlin (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Limited 21st Century Civilisation Modern Political Science Politics & Government World War Military Imperialism Imperial Japan Middle Ages Ancient History Middle East

Critic Reviews

"Carlin puts the 'hardcore' in Hardcore History by focusing his narratives on the most violent and dramatic moments in human history, filling his show with colorful anecdotes that were most likely left out of your high school history class." (Time)

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I’ve become a fan of Dan Carlin and his hard-core history podcasts. This book does not disappoint. It’s extremely timely to think about all the times in history that civilisations have been wiped out and ours is perched on the precipice. We have the threat of nuclear war and climate change involving resisting sea levels. New epidermic’s of infections are also possible. We have lived through 70 years of peace but history shows that all good things must come to an end. Dan Carlin make the Clarion call to wake up and behave more clearly than our predecessors.

Timely and scary

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Can't get enough of Dan's passionate and engaging method of delivering sometimes extremely complex and detailed information. As a huge fan of his podcasts the Audiobook version of this book was a must , however I'm sure I would have read it in his style either way. People who aren't familiar with him should definitely give this a read/listen , he's one of the all time historical and political greats ! Definitely will be reading this more than a few times ...

Any fan of Dan Carlin will absolutely love this!

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The master of the Hard core history podcasts delivers a great walk through time, detailing humanities resilience and recovery from extinction events, classifying the threats and comparing the changing times by creating viewpoint from the moments in history and modern hindsight. A excellent audiobook.

Listen and learn

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This audiobook of The End Is Always Near, read and written by Dan Carlin, is worth the time of anyone who contemplates the outcomes of past historical cataclysms, as well as the implications for future ones.

Any existing fan of Dan Carlin won't need to be recommended this - as they will already know this is a must have and should be listened to as soon as possible.

Tremendous and thought provoking!

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A great compliment to his podcast works. Im a huge fan of the old times and Dan's voice is the best at story telling as it is. Awesome book start to finish

Dan Carlin is always informative and confronting.

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I've been a big Hardcore History fan for many years now. I love Dan Carlin's perspective on history and, of course, his sensible, gravely delivery imbued with genuine passion is utterly infectious.
This book feels less like a book and more like a collection of thoughts, which he admits to himself at the start. If you've been listening to Hardcore History then you'll probably recognise the content as stuff he's stockpiled in the course of his research.
Be that as it may, this is still well worth the listen. I listened to this over a year ago and I still think about some of the things he said quite regularly. Dan Carlin has such a remarkable gift for delivering information AND insight. Think about how rare that really is.
If you've never heard of Dan Carlin but have an interest in history and the insights that studying the past can give us on our current selves, then get this book and get everything he has ever released and you can thank me later.

Food for thought

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Dan Carlin lays awake at night unable to sleep and you are invited to listen to his thoughts on world destruction :D.

Hardcore history fan.

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Not as hardcore as Hardcore history podcast. I prefer Dan impromptu delivery than this boo which seems a bit rehearsed. This book jumped pretty quick from Bronza age to time to WW2 and only really offered a quick look at each era.

Good but a bit light on

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this man and his works are an invaluable source of knowledge, thanks Dan and team.

Wonderful

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Dan Carlin is at his Hardcore History best in this. A must listen for all you HH fans!

A must have for all you HH fans

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