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Synopsis
Behind most major turning points in history - political, social, military, scientific or cultural - there lies a mystery. Someone at Pearl Harbour ignored the early warning, Someone saved Napoleon's Josephene from the guillotine, Someone started the Great Fire of London, Someone blundered in the Crimea and caused the death of the four hundred, Someone chanced to be in that street in Sarajevo, with a gun, and Someone failed to amuse Queen Victoria. This book is popular reference at its best and in appraising great events, is alternative history at its most hilarious and bizarre. Illustrated throughout with drawings of inspired lunacy by John Glashan, this little book is to the study of history what Rosencrantz and Guildernstern were to Hamlet - the fundamental 'what if...'
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- PublisherSidgwick & Jackson Ltd
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0283992190
- ISBN 13 9780283992193
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages128
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