If you are a person who likes a good fun fact or likes to play trivia games this is a book you might just want to pick up. It was included with my Audible subscription and as I mentioned, I have a goal to read at least one non-fiction book per month, so here we are this is my February Non-Fiction book!
I listened to this book and what is nice about it is that basically, it's a long list of historical facts, most of which people don't readily know. Frankly, and I mean this in the nicest way, this is a good bathroom book.
It covers a lot of historical facts from America and England. I definitely didn't know most of the information related to England.
When it comes to major historical events, in almost every case, a slight change could have made a huge difference. This book is filled with all the if not for X, X would not have happened.
Case in point, the title of the book, Napoleon was having a bad morning due to hemorrhoids and didn't get on the battlefield in a timely manner and the battle was lost.
Or that President Kennedy was wearing a back brace that keep him upright and like contributed to his death. Or that the Eiffel Tower was supposed to be torn down after it was up for 20 years, and the only reason it was kept up was that it had a radio transmitter.
4 Stars this book is easy to read and is packed with interesting facts about history.
3 comments:
I love trivia and books like this. Thanks for sharing
I love trivia and books like this. Thanks for sharing
I love learning fun facts, as Sheldon Cooper calls them. This sounds like a fun book and I also have audible plus, so it may go on my list.
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