Bøger af Dan Carlin

In his first book, the creator of the award-winning podcast Hardcore History looks to some of humanity's most apocalyptic moments to understand the challenges of our future.

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.

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.

Enden er altid nær Hvad sker der, når halvdelen af jordens befolkning dør, som de gjorde det under pest-epidemien? Hvad ville Julius Cæsar og Alexander den Store have stillet op med atombomben? Hvem vinder, hvis man lader den romerske hær kæmpe mod middelaldertropper? Var vores forfædre barskere, fordi de levede i en mere udfordrende tid? Er vi mere civiliserede nu, end frankerne, vikingerne eller de første kristne var det? Kan din hjemby blive den næste Troja? Hvordan ville vi agere, hvis vi oplevede de største begivenheder i historien? Gennemlever vi een lige nu med den verdensomspændende pandemi? Og hvordan vil eftertiden betragte vores håndtering af de afgørende begivenheder, som kendetegner vores tid? I Enden er altid nær - som er skrevet før COVID-19-virussen spredte sig - endevender og analyserer mesterfortælleren Dan Carlin vores historie og giver den en fascinerende og humoristisk vinkel. Ingen kedelige fakta, men levende anekdoter, der lærer os en masse om fortiden og fremtiden. Carlin skriver om historien lige fra bronzealderen over Karthago og til verdenskrigene, og han har stor empati for både fortidens imperiers storhed og fald, katastroferne og de store historier. Bogen anbefales til alle, hvis hjerte banker for historie. Aldrig er historien blevet fremstillet på en så filosofisk, lærerig og praktisk måde! Dan Carlin er amatørhistoriker og kendt for sine podcasts. Hans Hardcore History er en af verdens mest populære podcasts og er downloaded mere end 100 millioner gange. Hans lidenskab og talent for historiefortælling er afhængighedsskabende og fængende. The Huffington Post kaldte ham ’Amerikas historieprofessor’, og det er lige præcis denne form for historieundervisning, man gerne ville have haft i skolen.