As Napoleon himself once said, 'History is a version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.' Noted down in historical
documents, copied and widely repeated, it doesn't take long for a
version of the truth to become accepted as fact. But who invents
these false accounts in the first place, and why do they gain
traction so quickly? Far from concerning the obscure and
insignificant parts of our history, these fundamental inaccuracies
and downright lies colour the depiction of many of those pivotal
characters and events we learnt about at school. Cleopatra, Marco
Polo, Captain Cook, Joan of Arc; most of us could reel off a fact
or two about each. But as this intriguing book reveals, a closer
examination of these core parts of our social and political history
shows that often all was not as it seemed, and that the agendas of
those responsible for recording these events had a huge impact on
what was reported and what was covered up.
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