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<p><b>The bestselling alternative history series in bite-sized chapters. Thoroughly researched and entertaining. This is history … but not as you know it.</b><br><b><br>Explore the conspiracies, clandestine operations and coups that have shaped the course of history. This is history … but not as you know it.</b><br><br>Behind the great events, figures and developments of the past, there have always been <b>fiendish plots</b>, <b>hidden machinations </b>and <b>covert operations</b>. Leading readers through a truly <b>worldwide history</b>, Jacob F. Field examines how <b>conspiracies</b> have shaped the course of humanity, from the earliest times right up until the modern day.<br><br>In<b> 50 bite-sized chapters </b>spanning<b> 2,500 years</b>, <i>A Short History of the World in 50 Conspiracies</i> details bloody coups, gruesome assassinations and devious <b>espionage</b> to give a new perspective on the past. Historical hoaxes, political cover-ups and secret societies are all explored to reveal unsolved mysteries and unexplained events.<br><br>These are conspiracies that have <b>sparked wars</b>, <b>scandals </b>and <b>regime changes</b>, from the assassination that eliminated Xerxes the Great, one of the great rulers of the ancient world, to the 1991 coup that attempted to preserve Communist rule in Russia.<br><br>Readers will follow the complex, intriguing and sometimes underhand ways the past was shaped across the millennia, as Field <b>reveals new perspectives</b> on events from the Crusades to the French Revolution, to World Wars I and II, as well as influential figures like <b>Julius Caesar</b>, <b>Abraham Lincoln</b> and <b>Nelson Mandela</b>.<br><br><i>A Short History of the World in 50 Conspiracies</i> will take you into the shadows of history to reveal the seismic impact of the world’s most fascinating conspiracies. <br><b><br>Also available:</b><br><i>A Short History of the World in 50 Tyrants</i> (9781789298437)<br><i>A Short History of the World in 50 Failures</i> (9781789296938)<br><i>A Short History of the World in 50 Lies</i> (9781789294606)<br><i>A Short History of the World in 50 Books</i> (9781789294088)<br><i>A Short History of the World in 50 Animals</i> (9781789292954)<br><i>A Short History of the World in 50 Places</i> (9781789291971)</p>