History's Great Untold Stories: Obscure Events of Lasting Importance

Joseph Cummins

Murdoch Books, 2006 - World history - 367 pages

What people are saying

Review: History's Great Untold Stories: The Larger Than Life Characters and Dramatic Events That Changed the World

User Review  - Lori - Goodreads

I didn't find this book as interesting as I thought it would be. Maybe there's a reason why they are "Untold" stories.

Review: History's Great Untold Stories: The Larger Than Life Characters and Dramatic Events That Changed the World

User Review  - Bill - Goodreads

Some light reading for a history buff! Hardly serious history, but an interesting survey of historical obscurities.

About the author

Joseph Cummins is the author of a novel, The Snow Train (Akashic Books, 2001), and the editor of two anthologies from Lyons Press, Cannibals: Shocking True Stories of the Last Taboo on Land and at Sea (2001) and The Greatest Search and Rescue Stories Ever Told (2002). His book Anything for a Vote: A History of Dirty Tricks and October Surprises in Americas Presidential Elections will be published by Quirk Books in Spring 2007.

Bibliographic information

• Title: History's Great Untold Stories: Obscure Events of Lasting Importance
• Author: Joseph Cummins
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Murdoch Books, 2006
• ISBN: 1740458087, 9781740458085
• Length: 367 pages