100 great curioses of history

World history knows a lot of curioses - instructive and funny, mysterious and tragic, associated with well -known events and personalities. People were always interested in what sometimes knocked out world history with its measured act. How did the ancient Greeks almost invented the steam locomotive? How did the Russian North almost become an English colony? How did the Chinese open the world? How did Christopher Columbus have two graves at the same time in different parts of the world? How did Otto Skorzeny the Americans deceived, but did not win the war? You will learn about these and other misunderstandings, fatal mistakes and absurdities of global scale in a new book from the series "100 Greats"