The Greatest Stories Never Told

100 Tales from History to astonish, bewilder, and stupefy

The Greatest Stories Never Told is light reading at its most enjoyable.  The book is comprised of 100 short tales of historical incidence that can be read at leisure.  However, you will enjoy reading the stories so much that you will not want to put it down until you have read all 100.  I enjoyed the small quickly digestible accounts that will introduce you to the little known chance encounters, mistakes, and fate that altered the course of history.

Here is a sampling:

Did Attila the Hun die from battle wounds, or something more subtle, like a nose bleed?

The Mayflower landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts because the Pilgrims ran out of beer.

Coffee first gripped the world in the Middle East and was deemed Satan’s drink in the 1500s through-out Europe, until Pope Clement VIII tasted it and blessed it.

The Scottish Kilt was invented by an Englishman.

When construction workers started to dig a new subway line in 1912, they stumbled upon an unknown subway station that was built in 1860.

If the driver for Archduke Franz Ferdinand had not made a wrong turn, he may not have been assassinated, and World War I may have never occurred.

I enjoyed the book and recommend that you pick it up when you have a moment.  It makes a great gift book; in fact, it was a great Christmas gift for me.

I hope you enjoy.

You can find it at:     http://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Stories-Never-Told-Astonish/dp/0060014016/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243289407&sr=1-4