Tom Phillips (Humans; Truth) and Jonn Elledge (The Compendium of Not Quite Everything) team up to debunk the greatest conspiracy theories humans have ever espoused - to teach us how not to fall for them

Praise for the Brief History series:

'This book is brilliant. Utterly, utterly brilliant. Apart from the epilogue, which is idiotic' JEREMY CLARKSON

'Witty, entertaining and slightly distressing . . . You should probably read it' SARAH KNIGHT

'In dark times, it's reassuring to learn that we've always been a bunch of clueless f*cking nitwits' STUART HERITAGE

'If you ever find yourself looking at the news and wondering how humanity has got so many things wrong, over and over again, this book is a very funny answer to just that question' MARK WATSON

'A light-touch history of moments when humans have got it spectacularly wrong . . . Both readable and entertaining' TELEGRAPH