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Examples
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Andy The Magic Tour Guide is more than able to give a dry, history-book tour.
Jody Melto: The Magical Mystery Tour Jody Melto 2011
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Ms. Novick's story is at once extraordinary and universal in its history-book breadth and depth.
Lou Reed's 101-Year-Old Story Nicolas Rapold 2011
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Andy The Magic Tour Guide is more than able to give a dry, history-book tour.
Jody Melto: The Magical Mystery Tour Jody Melto 2011
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Each of the pictures had a title under it; some of them she could remember vaguely from her history-book at school.
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Forty-six years of history-book accomplishments on everything from Civil Rights to the Americans with Disabilities Act to gender equality.
Melissa Lafsky: The Footnote Speaks: What Would Mary Jo Kopechne Have Thought of Ted's Career? 2009
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They make Stalin's history-book campaign look like child's play.
Susie Bright: I Want to Be Disinhibited-- Whether W. Likes It or Not 2008
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She witnessed first-hand all kinds of history-book images -- the fire hoses, police dogs and flailing billy clubs.
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Reynolds's work shares the most recent Wolfson Prize, Britain's most prestigious history-book award, with another title about the Second World War, Forgotten Armies, by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper (Harvard), a panoramic chronicle of the war in South Asia ranging from swank prewar Singapore to famine-ravaged Bengal, where three million people died in 1943-1944.
War Without End 2005
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Reynolds's work shares the most recent Wolfson Prize, Britain's most prestigious history-book award, with another title about the Second World War, Forgotten Armies, by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper (Harvard), a panoramic chronicle of the war in South Asia ranging from swank prewar Singapore to famine-ravaged Bengal, where three million people died in 1943-1944.
War Without End 2005
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It's not an alternate history, where events diverge, it's one where they converge on the history-book story we all know.
The Thursday Afternoon "I Can Breathe Again" Review: Flash For Freedom! sbisson 2002
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