Mail on Sunday) "Anyone who's ever encountered a snooty Parisian waiter or found themselves driving on the Boulevard Peripherique during August will enjoy this book." ( Daily Mail) From the Publisher: This is a wonderfully entertaining piece of `alternative' history; well, I say `piece' - it is of course 1000 years worth of history, all of it true and all of it mega-interesting, most of which won't be available in more conventional history books. My favourite chapters? The Hundred Years War (chapter three) which the author says was `120 years of terror inflicted on French civilians by out-of-...