Donough O'Brien, before turning to writing, enjoyed a successful marketing career in the US and Europe. His previous books include Fame by Chance, which looked at places that became famous by a twist of fate; Banana Skins, which covered the secrets of the slips and screw-ups that brought the famous down to earth; Numeroids, a book of numerical nuggets, and In the Heat of Battle; those who rose to the occasion in warfare and those who didn't.
"Donough O'Brien has hit on another splendid idea: 'Whoever was?' listing and describing scores of extraordinary people who played an important but hidden task in the story of our times, but whom we probably never heard of in the first place. Definitely a book to dip into from time to time for an hour or more's remarkable details." - Frederick Forsyth
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