Name: Fierce History
Brand: The O'Brien Press
SKU: 9781788490290
Price: 14.95 EUR
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Bestselling author, Colin Murphy, explores the historical figures and events that have existed for centuries in the fringes and brings them out into the open for the reader.

Full of historical stories which will intrigue you, captivate you, revolt you and even make you laugh! Colin Murphy welcomes you into the fringes of history where shocking stories and compelling facts await you...

Fierce HistoryÂ is a collection of bizarre, grotesque and unexpected episodes from history from all over the world, and from ancient to more modern including:

Siblings of famous peopleÂ Al Capone's brother who hunted down illegal distillers. Irishman Frank Shackleton, brother of legendary Antarctic explorer Ernest, who was pretty much rubbish at everything, and may have stolen the Irish Crown Jewels. Napoleons sex-maniac sister

Weird historical incidentsÂ Flaming camels of war.Â Living turkey parachutes.Â Crazy assassination attempts.

Bizarre medical practices:Â Dr Evan O'Neill Kane, who in 1921 performed an appendectomy on himself.Â Radioactive water to cure arthritis, gout, neuralgias, poor circulation and a variety of other illnesses eh, no, it just kills you.

Remarkable children:Â Â William Rowan Hamilton by the age of twelve could speak fourteen languages, and went on to discover the quaternion, essential to the development of modern theories of electromagnetism and quantum mechanics, scratching his new mathematical formula on to the side of Broom Bridge in north Dublin

Written By: Colin Murphy

Hardback: 320 pages

Size: 196mm x 130mm

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