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    Nov 04, 2021 4 minutes

    Fake History

    From Mozart’s Murder to Cleopatra’s Asp

    Graeme Donald

    Michael O’Mara 2021

    Pb, 256pp, £7.99, ISBN 9781789293623

    Fake History

    Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World

    Otto English

    Wellbeck 2021

    Hb, 320pp, £16.99, ISBN 9781787396395

    You wait all day for a sceptical history – and then two come along with the same title. There is some crossover (our ancestors knew the Earth was round), but perspectives differ. Otto English debunks “history that will make children proud to be British”, while Graeme Donald ranges over time and space, taking in Joan of Arc, Herodotus, the

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