Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of World History电子书

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Some Things You Should Know Before Reading This Book

Part 1: Way Back When

Trojan War

Socrates

Alexander the Great

Herodotus

Caesar

Cleopatra

Caligula

Nero

The Fall of the Roman Empire

The Barbarians

Part 2: The Dark Ages

Ignorance

The Crusades

Knights

Hundred Years’ War

Shylock

The Spanish Inquisition

Part 3: A New Day Dawns

The Scientific Revolution

Copernicus

Galileo

Scientists Are Human

Part 4: The Facts of Life

Sex: I

Sex: II

Sex: III

Part 5: God Save the King!

Tradition and All That

A Dysfunctional Family

Richard Lion Heart

Henry V

Richard III

George III

Victoria

Edward VIII

Part 6: “This Scepter’d Isle”

Magna Carta

Star Chamber

Defeat of the Spanish Armada

Captain Kidd

Black Hole of Calcutta

William Bligh

Horatio Nelson

Lawrence of Arabia

Of Things Old

Of Kilts and Bagpipes

Part 7: Let them eat brioche!

Joan of Arc

Louis XIV

Marie Antoinette

Rousseau

Voltaire

Lafayette

Napoleon

Alfred Dreyfus

Part 8: Likeable (And Not-So-Likeable) Famous People

Machiavelli

Catherine the Great

Sun Yat-Sen

Chiang Kai-Shek

Gandhi

Part 9: King Arthur and Such

King Arthur

Lady Godiva

Robin Hood

Pied Piper

William Tell

Dracula

Frankenstein

Little Dutch Boy

Santa Claus

Part 10: Religion

The Bible

Judaism

Christ

Christianity

Part 11: World Wars I And II

World War I

Nazism

World War II

Hitler

Mussolini

Churchill

Hirohito

Part 12: Hollywood Does History

Based on a True Story

Soldiers and War

Newsreels

Conclusions

Acknowledgments

Notes

Searchable Terms

About the Author

Other Books by Richard Shenkman

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher