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Explore the conspiracies, clandestine operations and coups that have shaped the course of history. This is history ... but not as you know it.Behind the great events, figures and developments of the past, there have always been
fiendish plots,
hidden machinations and
covert operations. Leading readers through a truly
worldwide history, Jacob F. Field examines how
conspiracies have shaped the course of humanity, from the earliest times right up until the modern day.
In 50 bite-sized chapters spanning
2,500 years,
A Short History of the World in 50 Conspiracies details bloody coups, gruesome assassinations and devious
espionage to give a new perspective on the past.
These are conspiracies that have
sparked wars,
scandals and
regime changes, from the assassination that eliminated Xerxes the Great, one of the great rulers of the ancient world, to the 1991 coup that attempted to preserve Communist rule in Russia.
Readers will follow the complex, intriguing and sometimes underhand ways the past was shaped across the millennia, as Field
reveals new perspectives on events from the Crusades to the French Revolution, to World Wars I and II, as well as influential figures like
Julius Caesar,
Abraham Lincoln and
Nelson Mandela.
A Short History of the World in 50 Conspiracies will take you into the shadows of history to reveal the seismic impact of the world's most fascinating conspiracies.
Also available:A Short History of the World in 50 Tyrants (9781789298437)
A Short History of the World in 50 Failures (9781789296938)
A Short History of the World in 50 Lies (9781789294606)
A Short History of the World in 50 Books (9781789294088)
A Short History of the World in 50 Animals (9781789292954)
A Short History of the World in 50 Places (9781789291971)
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Dr Jacob F. Field is a historian and writer who was a contributor to
1001 Historic Sites and
1001 Battles. He is the author of
One Bloody Thing After Another: The World's Gruesome History, and
We Shall Fight on the Beaches: The Speeches That Inspired History, both published by Michael O'Mara Books. He studied for his undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford, and then moved to Newcastle University for his PhD, where he completed a thesis on the Great Fire of London. He then worked as a research associate at the University of Cambridge.
