Lost to Time: unforgettable stories that history forgotBy Martin W. Sandler
Historian Sandler has assembled a diverse and bafflingly overlooked collection of historical curiosities, forcing us to wonder how it's possible that we never learned this stuff in school? In some cases, there are explanations: the Sultana sinking, for example, was overshadowed in the press by the aftermath of Lincoln's assassination 13 days earlier, and the Exercise Tiger debacle was covered up for decades. But in other cases we're just left scratching our heads, wondering how these remarkable moments in history were allowed to slip through the cracks of time.
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