Author : Gareth Rubin
Release : 2014-05-08
Genre : History
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The Great Cat Massacre - A History of Britain in 100 Mistakes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Cat Massacre - A History of Britain in 100 Mistakes write by Gareth Rubin. This book was released on 2014-05-08. The Great Cat Massacre - A History of Britain in 100 Mistakes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 rumor that led to Germany losing World War I. 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."