Tony Perrottet's fun but thorough approach to his research has made him a regular contributor to publications such as: The Smithsonian Magazine, The Believer, National Geographic Adventure and also appearances on The History Channel - to name a few.
The story of what happened to Napoleon's privates and the subsequent discovery of them in a suitcase under a bed is what led the author to embark on a quest to discover evidence of age old mysteries.
With chapters entitled such: 'Sex and the Renaissance Nun (AD 1450); Napoleon's Dead! Long Live Napoleon's Privates! (AD 1821) and The Nazi Dictator's Other Ball (AD 1945) - you cannot help but be intrigued and also realise that this is not going to be your standard historical fact book!
The chapters (more than 60) are each a short mix of humor and fact - keeping the reader both intrigued and amused and wanting to move on to the next one.
History would sure have been a lot more fun at school if these fact had been thrown in!
Irreverent in it's content - this book is excellent fun, tongue-in-cheek reading for those that love their history served on the lighter side.
The quality and amount of research done - as indicated by the references - is far-reaching making the reader feel that certainty that they are not reading another book of urban myths.
Good fun and fact are always a winning combination - but often hard to combine - but it is done to an excellent standard to have even the more cynical of us at least smirking as we read.
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