NAPOLEON WASN’T SHORT AND ST PATRICK WASN’T IRISH: WHEN HISTORY GETS IT WRONG
Book ID/图书代码： 09220014B67659
English Summary/英文概要： After falling for one historical misconception too many, the time is now right to launch a spirited fightback. The moment has come to set the record straight, once and for all. Leading the way in this modern crusade comes Napoleon Wasn’t Short and St Patrick Wasn’t Irish, a lighthearted guide that reveals the many myths, fabrications and ambiguities found in the annals of world history. For example, Winston Churchill was not born in a ladies’ toilet, Lucrezia Borgia was not an infamous poisoner and as you’ve guessed, St Patrick Wasn’t Irish...
Written with wit and fascinating insight, and covering numerous subjects - from royalty to religion, saints to statesmen, inventors and explorers, and the lives of famous characters throughout history - this book is guaranteed to astonish and inform, amuse and entertain.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在无数次相信了某一个错误的历史概念后，是时候进行一次激烈的反击了。如今，一次性让所有历史记录都都已澄清的时刻终于来临。
在这场现代版的十字军东征中，引领我们的正是这本《拿破仑并不矮，圣帕特里克也不是爱尔兰人》，在这部轻松愉悦的指南中，我们将为您揭开世界历史所记录的许多的神话、捏造和模糊不清的概念背后的真相。例如，温斯顿•丘吉尔并非出生在女厕所里，卢克雷齐娅•博尔贾并非一名人们所以为的臭名昭著的用毒师，而圣帕特里克也并非是爱尔兰人。。。。。。
全书充满睿智与极度吸引人的深入洞见，并囊括涵盖了诸多不同主题---从忠诚到宗教，从圣人到政客，从发明家到探险者，以及历史上许许多多的著名人物----相信本书一定会令你震惊和获取信息，并令你欢乐不已。（DC）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 安德里亚•巴哈姆是一名作家和自由撰稿人，她有着一股强烈的意识，认为世界上应该少一些错误，多一些正确。她痛苦地意识到自己无法纠正像是战争、贫穷和全球变暖这样的大错误，于是便集中经理在更小同时也更适合于她的技巧领域，其主要是包括一些教人积极向上的东西。她著有畅销书籍《学究的起义：为何你所认为的大部分正确的东西是错误的》（迈克尔•奥马哈图书，2005）及其续篇《学究归来：为何你所认为错误的东西是正确的》（2006）。
Andrea Barham is an author and freelance writer with a strong sense that there should be less wrongness and more rightness in the world. Painfully aware of her inability to correct the bigger issues such as war, poverty and global warming, she is concentrating on smaller issues more suited to her skills, which consists of ’looking stuff up’. She is the author of the bestselling The Pedant’s Revolt: Why Most Things You Think Are Right Are Wrong (Michael O’Mara Books, 2005) and its follow-up The Pedant’s Return: Why Things That You Think Are Wrong Are Right (2006).
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