The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses By Dan Carlin

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Now a New York Times Bestseller.The creator of the wildly popular award-winning podcast Hardcore History looks at some of the apocalyptic moments from the past as a way to frame the challenges of the future.Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology or capabilities ever peak or regress? No one knows the answers to such questions, but no one asks them in a more interesting way than Dan Carlin.In The End is Always Near, Dan Carlin looks at questions and historical events that force us to consider what sounds like fantasy; that we might suffer the same fate that all previous eras did. Will our world ever become a ruin for future archaeologists to dig up and explore? The questions themselves are both philosophical and like something out of The Twilight Zone.Combining his trademark mix of storytelling, history and weirdness Dan Carlin connects the past and future in fascinating and colorful ways. At the same time the questions he asks us to consider involve the most important issue imaginable: human survival. From the collapse of the Bronze Age to the challenges of the nuclear era the issue has hung over humanity like a persistent Sword of Damocles.Inspired by his podcast, The End is Always Near challenges the way we look at the past and ourselves. In this absorbing compendium, Carlin embarks on a whole new set of stories and major cliffhangers that will keep readers enthralled. Idiosyncratic and erudite, offbeat yet profound, The End is Always Near examines issues that are rarely presented, and makes the past immediately relevant to our very turbulent present.

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I opted for the audio version of Dan Carlin's new book because I have more time to listen during my commute than I have to read, in general, during the rest of my day. I think fans of Hardcore History will enjoy this. Dan's delivery is less conversational, of course, because he's reading, but he does an excellent job of putting the information across and making it compelling.The scope of this book is more broad than a typical Hardcore History topic - and touches on many things covered in past podcasts, but in different ways. The early parts of the book deal with the end of the Bronze Age, the fall of the Roman Empire, the impact of plagues throughout history, and others, and then moves on to modern age concerns about "ending it all" with nuclear weapons. As Dan Carlin refers to himself, he's a fan of history, not a historian. Well, I'm a fan of history but far less well-read than him. I think one of his strong points is that he presents facts - or maybe "viewpoints" is more accurate - from different sources and isn't trying to push an agenda. He's good about presenting many varied sources and using quotes from historical figures and historians to flesh out the work. He essentially plays devil's advocate for issues such as the ethics of using nuclear weapons to end WWII.Dan Carlin does an excellent job of condensing and coalescing sources to present a fascinating big picture. This book is entertaining, well written and informative, and perhaps most important - it's thought-provoking. If we want to call this "pop history" that's fine with me. I love history but dry, uninspired historical texts are why many people say they "hate" history. This isn't fluff, though, by any means. If you want to spend time considering the ethics of dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the context of the ongoing campaign of extensive firebombing that had been hitting Japan in the months prior to those events, well, Dan will get you thinking.I appreciate Dan's (I can't help but think of him as "Dan") ability to condense and coalesce lots of sources to bring together a big picture. Over the years his delivery has improved and he has a flare for the dramatic - which is not to say that he's over-the-top, but his voice is emotive and he presents his well-researched material in a way that I always find compelling.As a first book I think this is a challenging, broad and fascinating effort. I want Dan to write more, but I want him to put out more podcasts....but I want him to write more...but I want him to put out more podcasts....the true dilemma of the Hardcore History fan.I look forward to his next book and his next podcast episode.

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