Christmas – the most beautiful time of the year! At least that’s how it should be. But besides the quarrelling and the little misunderstandings we know from our own family celebrations sometimes there are even bigger catastrophes happening around the world:
In Oregon an entire family was almost wiped out by a Christmas present, in a forest near the German town of Erlangen, a father lost his children whilst searching for a suitable Christmas tree. The Big Wheel erected at a German Christmas market stopped turning and the stranded revellers almost froze to death.
Jörg Metes has collected extraordinary, yet true accounts of Christmas catastrophes from across the world. Newspapers are full of reports of bizarre incidents which are regrettable at any time of the year, let alone at Christmas: For the season of goodwill always seems to serve up a frightful catalogue of disasters, mishaps and embarrassing howlers. The best of them are now featured in this funny and highly entertaining book.
