Napoleon's hemorrhoids
Subtitle: and other small events that changed history
By: Phil Mason.
Publisher: Skyhorse Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781602397644
Subjects: World history -- Anecdotes; History -- Anecdotes; World history -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes
Notes: "A Herman Graf book."

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Detours on the march of history; title: Politics : fates and fortunes; title: History's tricks : accidents, illnesses, and assassinations; title: The fog of war; title: Science : inspiration, invention, and intrigue; title: Chance beginnings; title: Artistic strokes (of luck); title: "Unlucky, Sport!"; title: Crime : missed demeanours; title: Business : enterprise and intuition.