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Snafu : The Definitive Guide to History's Greatest Screwups by Ed Helms (2025, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherGrand Central Publishing

ISBN-101538769476

ISBN-139781538769478

eBay Product ID (ePID)20071315632

Product Key Features

Book TitleSnafu : the Definitive Guide to History's Greatest Screwups

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicTopic / Politics, Topic / History, Modern / 20th Century, Curiosities & Wonders, United States / General

Publication Year2025

IllustratorYes

GenreReference, Humor, History

AuthorEd Helms

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight17.8 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2024-051875

Reviews"With his wry intelligence, Helms makes an ideal guide through these historical blunders... It's a charming and irreverent alternative history."-- Publishers Weekly, "I loved Snafu. Wonderfully told history interwoven with hilariously painful blunders of each decade from the fifties on. I actually gripped my head a few times and clutched my chest, laughing throughout, entertained and educated, unable to stop reading." -- Anne Lamott

SynopsisA New York Times Bestseller From actor, comedian, writer, and host of the hit history podcast SNAFU, Ed Helms brings you an absurdly entertaining look at history's biggest blunders, complete with lively illustrations. History contains a plethora of insane screwups--otherwise known as SNAFUs. Coined during World War I, SNAFU is an acronym that stands for Situation Normal: All F*cked Up. In other words, "things are pretty screwed up, but aren't they always?" Spanning from the 1950's to the present day, SNAFU features Ed Helms as unofficial history teacher with a loving tribute to humanity's finest face-plants, diving into each decade's craziest SNAFUs. From planting nukes on the moon to training felines as CIA spies to weaponizing the weather, this book unpacks the incredibly ironic decision-making and hilariously terrifying aftermath of America's biggest mishaps. Filled with sharp humor and lively illustrations, SNAFU is a wild ride through time that covers the head-scratching and occasionally inspiring blunders that have shaped our world and made historians spit-take. They're the kinds of stories that not only entertain but offers fresh insights that just might prevent history from repeating itself again and again.

LC Classification NumberE179.H475 2025