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We have all heard about the great generals of military history, and those whose heroic deeds changed the course of war. This is not their book. Instead, this offbeat and engaging book reveals the stories of 46 bit-players of military history: Hitler's personal pilot, Hanna Reitsch; Pierre Basile, the crossbowman whose arrow hit Richard I; Major John D Barry, the Confederate who mistakenly gave the order to fire upon General Stonewall Jackson; and, Lee Duncan, who rescued a puppy from the German trenches of World War I and took him back to America, where he became famous as Rin Tin Tin. If you think you know your history, prepare to think again.
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"Graeme deftly mixes those deserving of recognition with those who are overrated, painting a picture of past events that is at once more fascinating, more human, and a bit less familiar. The details are rich, the stories compelling, and the characters larger than life. It s when you start digging into the real minutiae that history comes alive, and Graeme s book delivers in spades, adding vividness and personality to strange and influential moments in time." - Glenn Dallas, "Sacramento Book Review""
Graeme deftly mixes those deserving of recognition with those who are overrated, painting a picture of past events that is at once more fascinating, more human, and a bit less familiar. The details are rich, the stories compelling, and the characters larger than life. It's when you start digging into the real minutiae that history comes alive, and Graeme's book delivers in spades, adding vividness and personality to strange and influential moments in time. "Glenn Dallas, Sacramento Book Review""
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Graeme Donald has written and broadcast on the origins of words, nursery rhymes, superstitions and popular misconceptions for many years. His most recent book is Loose Cannons (Osprey, 2009). For the ten years that Today newspaper was on the stands he wrote a daily column exploring such material and also wrote for The Mirror and The Age in Melbourne. He devised and set the questions for Back to Square One, a word-origins based panel game which ran for eight series on Radio 2 and World Service. He has also guested on countless radio and television shows, either to explain words and customs at special times - Christmas, Easter, Halloween, etc. - or simply to field listeners' or viewers' question.
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- PublisherOsprey Pub Co
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1849081700
- ISBN 13 9781849081702
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages288
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