Title: History's greatest lies
First published: 2008
Description: The true stories behind historical events give readers a fascinating new look at our past. The revelations shock and amaze by exposing veiled motivations and convenient inaccuracies in well-documented actions by established leaders that often have a continuing effect on the world. Each of the fifteen chapters points out a myth that is held as a common truth in history and summarizes what we think we know.
Subjects: Errors, inventions, History, Nonfiction, Common fallacies
LC classification: D10 .W317 2008