In 1914 a train pulled into a provincial British railway station.
The porter, a curious chap, asked the regiment of soldiers where
they were from. 'Ross-shire,' one called down, but the porter heard
'Russia'. And so began a rumour that led to Germany losing the
First World War. Often the history we learn at school is only half
the story. We hear of heroic deeds and visionary leaders, but we
never hear about the people who turned up late for court and
thereby changed the law, or who stood in the wrong queue at
university and accidentally won a Nobel Prize. The Great Cat
Massacre: A History of Britain in 100 Mistakes demonstrates that
the nation is as much a product of error as design. Through
chapters on religion, law, culture, war, science and politics, it
reveals such things as how an edict from Pope Gregory IX helped
spread the Black Death, how the sister of cricketer John Willes
invented overarm bowling, and how, had a letter not been lost,
Disraeli might never have become prime minister. This book is
history told through human failings, schoolboy errors, bad luck and
extraordinary consequences; a history of mishearing, misdiagnosis
and misinterpretation - a history that you won't find in the
textbooks.
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