This book was right up my street.

Lots of fascinating information about events that I have been interested in before, and some that I knew less about.

A fabulous addition to any social history collection.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers, Pen and Sword, for this ARC.

This was such an interesting insight into so many of the disasters of the world that were down to humans. I thought it was so brilliantly written!

A Century of Man-Made Disasters is a fascinating and interesting book. I could not put it down. Well written and unique.

It is amazing that our planet is still around with all the disasters that have struck us
If you are fascinated by plane crashes, there is a vivid description of 2 jumbo jets crashing on the runway killing more than 600 people
Or Chernobyl, whose nuclear disaster could have wiped out millions
This book describes numerous disaster which are tragic, but fascinating to read about
Mass shootings, boats sinking, earthquakes are described so clearly that you can almost feel the carnage
However, I really enjoyed this book, feeling that I had a first row seat to all these disasters

I thought that this book was excellent!

I read the book spread over two evenings and I found it to be quite addictive. I am a massive fan of social history and this book really showed the human element and the disastrous impact these events had on human life as well as also confirming what went wrong to cause the issues in the first place.

The writing style was perfect and I really enjoyed the length of the chapters. They were punchy and full of detail. The images that are added to the book were great and they really brought what happened to life.

I knew about some of the man-made disasters mentioned such as the sinking of the Titanic and the fate of the Challenger space shuttle but an equal amount of them were new to me. These really are tragic and some were very harrowing.

It is 5 stars from me for this book, I have already recommended the book to both my mum and my husband and will be recommending it to others too – very highly recommended!!