ASIN: B00JRV7ASI
Publisher: Five Minute Books
Pages: 181
From the #1 best-selling author of "History's Greatest Generals" comes a compendium of history that focuses on the strange, odd, little-known, or forgotten figures in history that deserve our attention. The 48 chapters cover absolutely everything in history. Well, not everything -- that would be impossible for anyone not named Bill Bryson. Instead it covers everything time period, from the myth of Atlantis, to Vlad Dracul (the real-life Count Dracula), to the legacy of Kim Jong-Il and his golfing abilities. Discover forgotten moments in history, such as the U.S. governments attempts to use camels to ferry equipment across the Southwest in the 1840s, or real-life Dr. Frankenstein, Joseph Conrad Dippel, who loved to apply electrical shock to cadavers. Find out about the greatest impostors in history, such as George Psalamanzar, who convinced all of Europe in the 1700s that he was actually ...
