366: A Leap Year of Great Stories from History for Every Day of the Year.

by Bruce Carrick, Bruce Carrick (Contributor)

This is the unputdownable sequel to 365 - highly addictive, with bite-size chunks of history. Jan 16, 1920: Prohibition is born. Feb 14, 270: St Valentine's martyrdom gives birth to a romantic tradition. Jul 5, 1946: The bikini swimsuit makes its debut at a Paris fashion show. Dec 22, 1849: Dostoyevsky is led out for a pretend execution. Strange sometimes to think, even the biggest events of world history happened on a particular day - a rainy February 25th, a sweltering July 2nd, your father's birthday . . . W. B. Marsh and Bruce Carrick present a leap year of historical stories in turns amazing, horrifying, touching and tearful. Spanning the history of man's life on earth and every corner of the inhabited world, they paint a picture of infinite richness and minute, enthralling detail. Read about the first-ever tanks going into combat on the Somme, Pushkin's death in a duel, Nietzsche's dramatic breakdown in Turin, Jesse Owens humiliating the Nazis at the Olympic Games and much, much more. This is the ideal book for any history junkie.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, World History

576 pages, Paperback

First published January 17, 2004

Reviews

[Ellie McGowan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed the book, however, some of them were quite repetitive.

[Peter Talbot · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good book to pick up and put down after 20 minutes. Heavy on stories involving European Royalty, Napoleonic trivia and world leaders. Some great anecdotes not easily found elsewhere. One beef: the really interesting stuff cited would be much more helpful with source footnotes rather than a topical index. Lack of these makes this decidedly a middle-brow effort and consigns the book to the coffee table or better yet, the bathroom. Fun to paw through.

[Stephanie F. · Rating 4 out of 5]

I originally bought this book a couple years ago and was at first really good about reading the appropriate entry for each day. Then I was lazy or life got in the way and it became something I just picked up every now and then and read for a little while.

The book was generally interesting and I enjoyed it. I think my only comlaint would be that some of the entries seem really obscure. For some, though, I can imagine that being part of the appeal - reading stories that aren't usually brought up in this kind of book.

[Jordan Wood · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like the concept of the book but some of the stories do drag on which is unusual for me to say as I love history. But a good book to dip in and out of.

[Melody Austria · Rating 4 out of 5]

i like this book. It gives a glimpse of every prominent person history. Its a history book you wont felt bored while reading it