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The job of public speaker, or orator as some would prefer to call it, is one of those things that looks much easier than it is. At the surface, it's just about reciting a speech to a bunch of people in front of you. However, digging deeper it becomes apparent that there are countless factors to take into account when speaking in front of the masses, from treading carefully on taboo subjects to using the right words to elicit the desired emotions from the audience.

There are plenty of books out there which explore what the world would have been like had Hitler been successful in his endeavors during the Second World War . Some of them weave together a narrative in which the world is explored in great detail, while others try to remain as down-to-Earth, factual and logical as possible, clearly describing possible scenarios which could have arose had things been different.

The Dreyfus affair is something which shook the foundations of humanity’s notion of justice, demonstrating that even with the most advanced justice system (or so it was believed at the time, at least), humans are open to errors of judgement through illogical discrimination and plain old racism. As a matter of fact, the doings of that affair were stranger than fiction, with Dreyfus being accused of spying and executed, all while the true culprit was still at large. An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris would be best-described as a novelization of the events which took place.