Mysterious Stories: The Unknown Facts About Historical Figures

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We learn history at school from the perspective of wars, gigantic social processes, the fate of countries and even continents. To facilitate understanding and remembering these events, scientists and teachers present the achievements of selected figures living in the epochs in question: their deeds, conquests, and artistic achievements. History, however, has an equally important but little-known realm.These are extraordinary events in the lives of well-known people and special achievements of little-known but extremely interesting figures.On the mysterious side of the story, Heinrich Himmler meets John Dee, and Gilles de Rais meets Isaac Newton.The book "Mysterious Stories" proves that facts can be stranger than literary fiction.