Great Stories of History.

A collection of surprising anecdotes and episodes from the past that reveal the most unusual and fascinating side of history.

A woman takes a peaceful nap, unaware of the meteorite about to fall on her. A king organizes a gala dinner for his enemies, whom he will soon display as taxidermied specimens. A near-sighted soldier saves the Leaning Tower of Pisa from being bombed. A bullet hits its target twenty years after being fired.

Plagues of laughter, statues that sing, ancient machines predicting the course of the economy, and stews that take a hundred years to cook. These might seem like the wild imaginings of an eccentric writer, but they are real anecdotes, with flesh-and-blood protagonists, documented in chronicles and manuscripts from all places and times.

History is full of grand tales.