Founder of George Mason University’s History News Network and bestselling author of and , Rick Shenkman is an historian, a rebel, and a myth debunker par excellence. In , he explodes some of the most honored and long-held misconceptions about kings and despots, wars and empires, religions, inventions, from the glory days of the Roman Empire to the dark days of World War Two. Fascinating, edifying, and irreverent, here is the real world history you were never taught in school—for history buffs and confirmed trivia fanatics everywhere!