Andrew Lang trades fairy tales for true ones in this companion to his famous colour-titled series: real episodes from history retold with a storyteller's flair.
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Adventure, courage, and heroism drawn from the record rather than imagination.
Andrew Lang made his name gathering fairy tales into his celebrated series of…
Here he turns to a different kind of marvel: stories that actually happened.
Retold with the same relish and narrative ease that made his fairy collections so…