Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History

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The attention to factual detail (apart from the re-printed paragraph ;-) it doesn’t warrant the loss of one star) is quite extraordinary for what cannot avoid being a fairly general overview of a number of historical figures. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. From the author of the fascinating and readable Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from our past, examining these previously unquestioned idols and exposing what they were trying to hide.

In comparing the Norwegian and British teams we are told: "He [Amundsen] and his tight knit team were all properly kitted out in wolfskin and reindeer fur and had kept perfectly warm. If it was a 'myth' that the Terra Nova expedition was foremost a scientific endeavour, it's unlikely that the men would have bothered to stop to collect rock samples on their way back from the pole. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished.

Two vastly different worlds collide when an Amish boy, Samuel Lapp, becomes the sole witness to the murder of an undercover cop while visiting Philadelphia with his mother Rachel. Of course, he would scoff at the idea that he himself is any kind of hero yet here we are at the nub of the problem. All members can listen all they want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, originals, and more in the Plus Catalog. An interesting thing happened with the first book, I found that, in the UK in particular, a certain group of people got very angry with me, because I wrote a chapter on Winston Churchill.

Rosamund Pike narrates this true story documentary about an extraordinary woman who deceives her friends, neighbors, boss and even her children.Why we think it’s a great listen: An all-time Audible favorite that mixes historic fiction, adventure, and romance with one of the most fascinating literary devices: time travel. In truth you cannot be objective and we should pretend that this work is anything other than subjective. The second group consists of convicted murderers and volunteers who elect to serve their sentences in a virtual-reality prison.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Otto English’s latest foray into the murky waters of historical deception interrogates the heroic mono-myth popularised by Joseph Campbell with a critical analysis of some key luminaries whose true life exploits fall far short of their legend. Join Susan Cain, an international best-selling author on the power of introverts who will help you tune out all of your everyday stresses and conflicts and tune into living a Quiet Life. A little way into the chapter on Scott we are told: "In the Heroic Age, leading a grand polar expedition was a surefire path to swift promotion, medals and glory, and Scott was a hugely, hugely ambitious individual who chased after it all.The writing is uneven at times and seems almost as if it was rushed, while the narrative is also fascinating in places. College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. Having exposed some of the greatest lies ever told in Fake History, journalist Otto English turns his attention to some of history’s biggest (and most beloved) figures. As I show her inside, I notice her eyes grow wide as she takes in our spacious hallway, and the big squashy sofas that we all used to pile on.

And the train passed, I think, within an inch over the top of their heads and saved this guy's life. The first group are all astronauts, about to leave Earth on a one-way interstellar colonization mission. The chapter on Henry V is a description of that king's foolhardiness in war, but then toward the end has a strange segue into Australian history, with the connection tenuous at best.His upbringing was quite well to do, and such were the class divisons in the Argentina of his day that people of his class thought nothing of the teenage Guevara routinely raping the family maid. The reason the Norwegians were (and still are) so good at polar travel is because it's where they live, they do it all the time, they learn to ski before they can walk.