Not all history is recorded in school textbooks or cast into towering
monuments that shape city skylines. Quite often the most intriguing (and
most bizarre) bits are forgotten and fall away into obscurity. In this
fascinating book, Jem Duducu shines light on the almost forgotten,
wonderfully strange, and often hilarious moments of history that would
otherwise be lost forever. Forgotten History tells in delightful detail
the stories of hard-to-believe events, people and inventions. Spanning
the breadth of human history, this light-hearted and easy-to-read book
is full to bursting with the bits from history that even a history
enthusiast may otherwise have never known. Covering a wide variety of
topics, from the time a Pope put his dead predecessor on trial to the
awkward moment when the US Air Force accidentally dropped nuclear bombs
on Spain, Forgotten History provides a journey through time to discover
the weird and wonderful history that you didn't learn about in school.