While many successes of the Victorian era are well known, Stan Yorke, a retired engineer and author, and Trevor Yorke, an artist and author, details mistakes that were made that they argue were the result of Victorian society seeing the poor as expendable. For general readers, they describe the bursting of the Dale Dyke Dam in South Yorkshire, the collapse of the Tay Bridge and suspension bridge disasters, railway disasters, mine explosions, medical mistakes, and other failures, with illustrations. There is no bibliography. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)