Amazing Tales from Times Gone By

Come face to face with history's most extraordinary characters and astonishing events

More thrilling than anything the most imaginative writer could invent - Amazing Tales from Times Gone By brings you 5,000 years of history with courage, cowardice and out-and-out absurdity.

• Which deadly weapon was banned in the 12th century because it flouted the rules of chivalrous combat?

• Which tempestous Italian painter was pardoned for murder in 1610?

• Who is said to have erected cardboard villages in 1787 to trick Catherine the Great into thinking her country was more prosperous than it was?

77 in-depth stories • 416 suspense-filled pages • Sturdy hardback cover • Over 300 illustrations and photographs • 254mm x 178mm