The Secret History of the World: As Laid Down by the Secret Societies

by Jonathan Black and Mark Booth

Book Overview

They say that history is written by the victors. But what if history-or what we come to know as history-has been written by the wrong people? What if everything we've been told is only part of the story? In this groundbreaking and now famous work, Mark Booth embarks on an enthralling tour of our world's secret histories. Starting from a dangerous premise-that everything we've known about our world's past is corrupted, and that the stories put forward...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590200314
• ISBN13: 9781590200315
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 415 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.6" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

What a waste of time to read

This book is a joke, it's not an academic look at the history of secrets society but a silly attempt connect every conspiracy, religious philosophy, and historical event to Atlantis (who Plato himself called an allegory). The author for example compares Dionysus, Rama, and Noah as some kind of forgotten story of pre-historic Alexander the Great but he makes no attempt to explain anything or show how these mythology could be linked but make everything connected to Atlantis. Given the fact the Atlantis narrative in Plato's Timaeus and Critias is A short and B incomplete how does guy get the claim the Noah, Dionysus, and Vishnu are all from Atlantis or represent an archetype. The rest of the book is poorly explained and has no new ideas nor any unqiue historical conclusions. Stay away from this book and save your money.