History That Rattles: The Strange, Surprising and True History of Survival

A razor-sharp, story-first history of how ordinary people survived plagues, hunger, and bad medicine.

For readers who want vivid, short chapters and a grown-up lens on what really kept humans alive.

• What you'll get: gripping micro-histories with zero textbook fog.
• Why it's different: everyday survival-not kings and battles-drives the story.
• You'll walk away with: a clearer sense of how fragile bodies built resilient societies.

Historian Barbora Jirincová, PhD, reveals the strange and unsettl...