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FAKE HISTORY - OTTO ENGLISH KARTONIERT (TB)

An alternative history of the world that exposes some of the biggest lies ever told and how
they've been used over time.  Lincoln did not believe all men were created equal.  The Aztecs
were not slaughtered by the Spanish Conquistadors.  And Churchill was not the man that people
love to remember.  In this fascinating new book  journalist and author Otto English takes ten
great lies from history and shows how our present continues to be manipulated by the
fabrications of the past.  He looks at how so much of what we take to be historical fact is  in
fact  fiction. From the myths of WW2 to the adventures of Columbus  and from the self-serving
legends of 'great men' to the origins of curry - fake history is everywhere and used ever more
to impact our modern world.  Setting out to redress the balance  English tears apart the lies
propagated by politicians and think tanks  the grand narratives spun by populists and the media
the stories on your friend's Facebook feed and the tales you were told in childhood. And  in
doing so  reclaims the truth from those who have perverted it.  Fake History exposes everything
you weren't told in school and why you weren't taught it.

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