Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of World History - Richard Shenkman

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of American History comes an entertaining book exploring other countries. In Shenkman's zany history, nothing is as it seems and world luminaries are treated as actual human beings. Line drawings. n nWas there really a valiant little Dutch boy, a protesting Lady Godiva, a fiddling Nero, or a prudish Queen Victoria? No, says Shenkman ....No person, event, or thing is safe from Shenkman's corrections. n--Booklistn nFounder of George Mason University's History News Network and bestselling author of Presidential Ambition and One Night Stands with American History, Rick Shenkman is an historian, a rebel, and a myth debunker par excellence. In Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of World History, he explodes some of the most honored and long-held misconceptions about kings and despots, wars and empires, religions, inventions, from the glory days of the Roman Empire to the dark days of World War Two. Fascinating, edifying, and irreverent, here is the real world history you were never taught in school--for history buffs and confirmed trivia fanatics everywhere! nn