While English's subject and material are genuinely interesting, his presentation and analysis are sophomoric. The story spread by the propaganda office was that 'plucky little britain' stood up against the onslaught of the German juggernaut. By the end the reader realises that how so much of what we take to be historical fact is, in fact, fiction. If furs were worn for manhauling, the wearer would overheat and sweat, the sweat would freeze and the wearer would be at risk of hypothermia and death. If your regular diet of history consists of pop-history books and television programs, you might enjoy this book.

Englishnek viszont van egy karcolhatatlan elképzelése arról, hogy a nacionalizmus hülyeség, a nemzetek története merő hazugsággyár, a Brit Birodalom pedig szégyellje össze magát. With that in mind I will talk about what I didn't like about the audiobook, but note that it didn't affect my rating of the book overall.Churchill was not “alone” in his opposition to Indian independence in the 1930s – the Government of India Act of 1935 was intended by the government to secure British rule of India, not pave the way for independence. In short, the 'dominant narrative' of history has, for the last thousand years at least, been dictated by the 'dominant people' and that means it has been written by white males, about white males, for white males. Thoroughy enjoyable way to find out how so much of life's preconceptions are mistaken and how cognitive dissonance and the Dunning-Kruger affect lead us astray.

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Nevertheless, Otto English doesn't like Warhol at all, which is understandable in some ways, but not comprehensively explained. While not everything is quite as revelatory as the title might suggest, there were certain lies that I believed that it was fascinating to learn were not exactly as I had been told.