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Tiny histories: trivial events & trifling decisions that changed British history

By Wills , Dixe

Book information

Publisher
Quadrille Publishing Ltd
ISBN
9781787132030, 178713203X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2453779 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain;History;Electroni

Description

Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; War; Ealdor Byrhtnoth carries out a misguided act of chivalry; A sailor has an ear cut off (and possibly pickled); Robert Clive reaches for an unreliable pistol; The freighter Vigilancia sinks off the coast of Cornwall; Leopold Lojka makes a wrong turn; A British soldier shows mercy to a future German Chancellor; A farmer shoots a potato-eating pig; Food; A physicist demonstrates his invention for softening bones; The Duc de Richelieu's chef cannot find any cream

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