Brief Encounters
Meetings Between (mostly) Remarkable People
100 articles on meetings between historical figures explore the details of famous (and some not so famous) conversations and events
Meetings range from the time of the ancient Greeks to the present day
Articles explain why meetings were important (although some are just funny or downright bizarre)
Historical context explains ‘what happened next’
£7.99
£5.99
ISBN-13:
978 0550 10350 5
Paperback
160pp
198 x 129mm
This informative and entertaining look at our past and present explores the pleasantries, pardons, interrogations and arguments that have passed between the likes of Jackie Kennedy and Princess Diana, Lew Wallace and Billy the Kid, Kurt Waldheim and John Simpson, Queen Victoria and Black Elk, and JS Bach and Frederick the Great. The meetings in this book offer a unique perspective on brief moments in our history. As Donald Rumsfeld (who almost made it into the book) would perhaps put it, this is ‘stuff’ as it happened, and we are all interested in stuff.
