The Great Cat Massacre: A History of Britain in 100 Mistakes
Publication details: United Kingdom; John Blake Publishing Ltd; 2014Description: 278 Pages; PaperbackISBN:- 9781782197683
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Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 | Karachi History | 941 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Withdrawn Not For Loan | Book Bazaar | PKLC009092 | ||
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 | Lahore In Store | 941 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | PKLC008636 |
In 1914 a train pulled into a provincial British railway station. The porter, a curious chap, asked the regiment of soldiers where they were from. Ross-shire, one called down, but the porter heard Russia . And so began a rumour that led to Germany losing the First World War. Often the history we learn at school is only half the story. We hear of heroic deeds and visionary leaders, but we never hear about the people who turned up late for court and thereby changed the law, or who stood in the wrong queue at university and accidentally won a Nobel Prize. The Great Cat Massacre: A History of Britain in 100 Mistakes demonstrates that the nation is as much a product of error as design. Through chapters on religion, law, culture, war, science and politics, it reveals such things as how an edict from Pope Gregory IX helped spread the Black Death, how the sister of cricketer John Willes invented overarm bowling, and how, had a letter not been lost, Disraeli might never have become prime minister. This book is history told through human failings, schoolboy errors, bad luck and extraordinary consequences; a history of mishearing, misdiagnosis and misinterpretation a history that you won't find in the textbooks.
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