75 years on from the first publication of "1066 and All That", Craig Brown takes over where Sellars and Yeatman left off. With all the zest and exuberance of the original, "1966 and All That" takes us on a half-remembered journey of imperial decline, loss of mustaches, The Sewers Crisis...
On a cold, miserable night in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a night that wouldn’t feel so unusual if it wasn’t the Fourth of July, an antique wooden boat runs full-speed into a line of old railroad pilings in the shallow waters of Waishkey Bay. When Alex McKnight helps rescue the passengers, he finds three men. The driver is out cold, the other two are dazed but conscious. When they’re all finally back on dry land and sent...