Fake History

101 Things That Never Happened

eBook, 416 pages

English language

Published Oct. 12, 2023 by Virgin Digital.

ISBN:
978-0-7535-5970-3
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OCLC Number:
1420147740

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Fake news about the past is fake history.

  • Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms?
  • Did medieval people think the world was flat?
  • Did Napoleon shoot the nose off the Sphinx? Spoiler Alert The answer to all those questions is no.

From the famous quote 'Let them eat cake' - mistakenly attributed to Marie Antoinette - to the apocryphal horns that adorned Viking helmets, fake history continues to shape the story we tell about who we are and how we got here. With doctored photographs, AI-generated images and false claims about the past circulating in the news and on social media, separating fact from fiction seems harder than ever before.

Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse, better known as The Fake History Hunter, is on a one-woman mission to hunt down fake history and reclaim the truth for the rest of us.

In this fascinating and illuminating book, Teeuwisse debunks 101 myths so …

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