History's Last Stand by Gerard and Patricia Del Re

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The Last Gasps, Fatal Falls and Fateful Final Gambles of Heroes, Despots, Empires, and Civilizations. More details...

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Format: Trade paperback

Condition: vg- condition, minor shelf wear

Size: 5.25"x8.0"

Pages: 222pp, 1993 edition

As the millennium races relentlessly toward its conclusion, it is comforting to know that humanity has survived countless epochal ends and historic finales. In this fascinating, informative and entertaining volume, popular historian Gerard and Patricia Del Re present an astonishing collection: from the downfalls of kings and gangsters to the destruction of great civilizations- people, places, wars and eras that went down in glory or in ignominy.. and the not-so-graceful falls from grace of the once high and mighty.

Last Words:

Having trod on his toes on the way to the guillotine, Marie Antoinette turns to her executioner and says, "Monsieur, I beg your pardon. I did not do it on purpose."

Last Laugh:

President Abraham Lincoln is shot at Ford's Theater during a performance of "Our American Cousin" - while laughing at actor Asa Trenchard's line, "You sockdolagized old mantrap!"

Last Hurrah:

After a devastating, ten-month-long siege, on January 28, 1886, Khartoum finally falls- and the head of beloved British hero General Gordon along with it.

Last Seen:

On November 25, 1971, somewhere over Washington State, D.B. Cooper bails out of a skyjacked Northwest Airlines 727 jet with four parachutes and an ill-gotten $200,000- and vanishes.

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