366: More Great Stories from History for Every Day of the Year by W. B. Marsh & Bruce Carrick
This is the unputdownable sequel to 365 - highly addictive, with bite-size chunks of history.
Jan 16, 1920: Prohibition is born. Feb 14, 270: St Valentine's martyrdom gives birth to a romantic tradition. Jul 5, 1946: The bikini swimsuit makes its debut at a Paris fashion show. Dec 22, 1849: Dostoyevsky is led out for a pretend execution. Strange sometimes to think, even the biggest events of world history happened on a particular day - a rainy February 25th, a sweltering July 2nd, your father's birthday . . .
W. B. Marsh and Bruce Carrick present a leap year of historical stories in turns amazing, horrifying, touching and tearful. Spanning the history of man's life on earth and every corner of the inhabited world, they paint a picture of infinite richness and minute, enthralling detail.
Read about the first-ever tanks going into combat on the Somme, Pushkin's death in a duel, Nietzsche's dramatic breakdown in Turin, Jesse Owens humiliating the Nazis at the Olympic Games and much, much more.
This is the ideal book for any history junkie.
Paperback | 576 pages
129 x 198 x 48mm | 590g
01 Dec 2008
Icon Books
Duxford, United Kingdom
English
Edition Number: 1
1848310056
9781848310056
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including very minor scuff marks along the edges, and minor creasing on the bottom-left corner of the back cover, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with very minimal creasing (very minor creasing on only 3-4 pages in the book) but no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.