Spanning almost 2500 years, 501 Most Devastating Disasters covers life-changing events, from earthquakes and shipwrecks to military massacres and financial collapses.
It is divided into 16 categories including:
• Natural disasters, like Indonesia’s Krakatao eruption and Victoria’s Black Saturday bushfires
• Transport disasters, including the sinking of the Titanic and the 1977 Granville train disaster in Australia
• Disastrous conflagrations, such as the Blitz Fire in London in 1940
• Health disasters, like the AIDS and SARS epidemics.
• Political Disasters, including America’s Watergate scandal and the 2009 Afghan Elections.
• Economic Disasters, like the Global Financial Crisis.