Birthday
Nils O. Monaghan writes:
[panegyric on Adolf Hitler]
> he wrote a book which has outsold every other book in history except
> for the Bible.
In the UK, the best seller for many years - way ahead of the Bible -
has always been the Highway Code. (I'd guess that Chairman Mao's
Little Red Book would be a long way ahead of Mein Kampf, too).
I suspect that, in the US, Fannie Farmer outsold Hitler by quite
a long way. Anybody got the figures?
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