The Greatest Nobodies of History : Minor Characters from Major Moments, Adrian Bliss

The Greatest Nobodies of History : Minor Characters from Major Moments, Adrian BlissNew Paperback History belongs to the heroes. But to get the full story, sometimes you have to ask the side characters. The lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Henry VIII and Queen Victoria fill bookshelves and fascinate scholars all over the world. But little attention is given to the ferret who posed for the renaissance master, the servant who oversaw the Tudors toilet time, or the famous horse who thrilled the miserable old monarch. These supporting cast

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Like his famous brother he was commissioned into the Warwickshire Regiment before transferring to the Indian Army

showing how twenty-first century concerns and anxieties have been moulded by events over the past sixty years

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Hugh Brody ate roast beef and Yorkshire pudding but was always given to understand that the real

his neurotic Italian assistant who likes digging for river mud to make poultices

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thus setting the stage for one of the grimmest and most attritional campaigns of the Second World War

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