The Greatest Science Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer

The San Francisco Chronicle called the film “mesmerizing,” while TV Guide referred to it as “entrancing.”īeyer has also produced documentary films for The History Channel, A&E, National Geographic, the Smithsonian and others.

His award-winning documentary film about the unit, The Ghost Army premiered on PBS in 2013. Beyer has spent nearly a decade researching this story. 'In this fascinating dual biography, Beyer brings these two towering figures to vivid life on the page.' - New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides.Beyer is the co-author (with Elizabeth Sayles Sayles) of the New York Times bestseller The Ghost Army of World War II How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks Sound Effects and Other Audacious Fakery. His newest book, Rivals Unto Death traces the thirty-year rivalry of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.

Rick Beyer is a best-selling author, an award-winning filmmaker and long-time history enthusiast. And you'll soon find yourself telling them to your friends. The Scottish kilt was invented by an Englishman.īased on the popular Timelab 2000® history minutes hosted by Sam Waterston on The History Channel®, this collection of fascinating historical tidbits will have you shaking your head in wonder and disbelief. Three cigars changed the course of the Civil War. Some Roman officials were so corrupt that they actually stole time itself. A new discovery waits on every page: stories that changed the course of history and stories that affected what you had for breakfast this morning.Ĭonsider: The Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock because they ran out of beer. It's a historical delight and a visual feast with hundreds of photographs, drawings, and maps that bring each story to life. Here are 100 tales to astonish, bewilder, and stupefy: more than two thousand years of history filled with courage, cowardice, hope, triumph, sex, intrigue, folly, humor, and ambition. That's the kind of history you'll find in The Greatest Stories Never Told. Sometimes it's made when a chauffeur takes a wrong turn, a scientist forgets to clean up his lab, or a drunken soldier gets a bit rowdy. History isn't always made by great armies colliding or by great civilizations rising or falling.

The Greatest Science Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer