Lies, Damned Lies and History: A Catalogue of Historical Errors and Misunderstandings
by:
Graeme Donald (author)
This collection takes the reader on a journey, century-by-century, showing how the truth that is usually taken for granted is a far cry from the facts. Amusing anecdotes and little-known facts travels through history, while teasing cross-references show how obscure events are linked. This is not...
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This collection takes the reader on a journey, century-by-century, showing how the truth that is usually taken for granted is a far cry from the facts. Amusing anecdotes and little-known facts travels through history, while teasing cross-references show how obscure events are linked. This is not a book for those who like their history sugarcoated, but for those who truly want to see the past as it was. Any history lover will delight in these revealing, hilarious lessons of how historical events didn’t always unfold as was thought.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780752452333 (0752452339)
Publish date: May 1st 2010
Publisher: The History Press
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Good bits of info on varied topics.However, the author seems to be hell bent on proving that American Indians treated the nature in effect no better than "white man".Recent evidence on the contrary seems to point that "injuns" were remarkably well informed and well equipped when it came to matters o...
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