Weird History 101: My Dinner with Atilla the Hun, I Started World War I, Watching Custer's Last Stand, and other true tales of Intrigue, Mayhem, and Outrageous Behavior

by John Richard Stephens

Overview

They bored you in school with the dull stuff. Now you can enjoy reading about the interesting stuff. Your teachers built up heroes—such as the Founding Fathers—with their sanitized myths, but hid their dark side and flaws. Now they’re revealed. If your teachers taught you one-sided stories, now you can get alternative points-of-view with firsthand accounts by people who were there.

If you’d like to know more about Custer, Geronimo, Nero, Attila the Hun, the Red Baron, Wyatt Earp, Houdini, the Titanic, pirates, propaganda, nuclear weapons, battles, massacres, war crimes, spies, terrorists, executions, assassinations, cannibalism, human sacrifice, drugs, and sex. And you don’t mind taking an irreverent poke at politicians, presidents, the legal system, medicine, and weird religions. Then this just might be the book for you. If you can handle it.

This book doesn’t hold back. You might be shocked or even offended, but you’re sure to be enlightened. No doubt you’ll remember some of these bits of history for a long time. And you definitely won’t be bored.

This is history as entertainment.

New updated edition with additional illustrations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780988790254
Publisher:	Fern Canyon Press
Publication date:	10/22/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	354
Sales rank:	278,738
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

John Richard Stephens
Most of John’s twenty-three books have been repeatedly published in various editions by a number of the world’s top publishers. His books include Commanding the Storm, Weird History 101, Wyatt Earp Speaks, Voodoo, Adventure! , The King of the Cats, and Mark Twain’s Hawai‘i. His books have been selections of the Civil War Trust, the Preferred Choice Book Club, the Quality Paperback Book Club and the Book of the Month Club. His work has been published as far away as India and Singapore and has been translated into Japanese and Finnish.