Nonetheless, the book was an international best-seller [82] and inspired Dan Brown's bestselling mystery thriller novel The Da Vinci Code. The emotional and irrational nature of Mao’s policy conduct during the second strait crisis became quite clear in his talk with his personal physician right after his confrontational meeting with Khrushchev.

Over the four days of fighting from June 15th to 19th, the Prussians fought two battles alone and lost both. Not only has Stalin been rehabilitated, with new monuments built to honour him across the country, but historians and human rights activists who work to document Stalinist crime have come under political pressure. Far from being a ground-breaking exposé of dishonesty and deceit, Fake History is one of the worst books about history I’ve ever read — and I say that as somebody who made it all the way through Jacob Rees-Mogg’s The Victorians.

The article reported that Herschel had made these discoveries using new“hydro-oxygen magnifiers” and went on to describe in believable scientific detail, how the discovery was made. The Khazar theory is an academic fringe theory that postulates that the bulk of European Jewry are of Central Asian (Turkic) origin. Equally upsetting is the fact that presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both owned slaves.

Whether you are skimming through historical newspaper archives, or browsing through your Facebook feed, don’t believe everything you read. In spite of mainstream academic consensus conclusively rejecting it, this theory has been promoted in Anti-Semitic and some Anti-Zionist circles, arguing that Jews are an alien element both in Europe and in Palestine. From the first Thanksgiving to the moon landing, here's everything your teacher may have gotten wrong about American history. They are the historical equivalent of conspiracy theories, purporting to uncover some hidden, monolithic, indisputable truth.The work was conclusively proven to be a forgery in August 1921, when The Times revealed that extensive portions of the document were directly plagiarized from Maurice Joly's 1864 satirical dialogue The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, [23] as well as Hermann Goedsche's 1868 anti-Semitic novel Biarritz.