This entertaining atlas of nations that fell off the map is a joyously compiled catalogue of chancers, conmen, madmen, mistakes, lies and far fetches schemes that laid waste the genuine hopes of a nation or exploded the overreaching ambitions of bombastic megalomaniac a riot of revisionist history and political ambition Traveller MagazineA whirlwind tour through the pleasingly oddball tales of history's also-rans If youre looking for a delightful stocking stuffer for the travel and history aficionado in your life, look no further Frommers From the Back Cover Countries die. Sometimes its murder, sometimes its by accident, and sometimes its because they were so ludicrous they didnt deserve to exist in the first place. Occasionally they explode violently. A few slip away almost unnoticed.