Potted PortraitsAuthor(s): Christopher Rose\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Troubador Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: Matador\nISBN-13: 9781805140115, 978-1805140115\nSynopsis\nDidnt Cleopatra look like Elizabeth Taylor? Didnt Shakespeare look like Shakespeare? Doesnt Mazzini deserve to have a biscuit named after him? Did Napoleon pass his French exam? Did Nelson really see no ships? Van Goghor Van Gogh? And can you spot Hitchs cameo appearance this time?\nPotted Portraits is an enjoyable saunter through a portrait gallery of varied personalities from History; revered or reviled, loved or loathed, each led a remarkable life that continues to be of interest today.\nIn a series of light verse biographies which delight in testing the limits of tolerance with their rhymes, puns and general linguistic convolutions, discover a few new things about some familiar characters; or reacquaint yourself with some familiar stories in a new way. Included are some perhaps rather less well-known fi!