An Atlas of Extinct Countries

I added this to my TBR in order to meet the requirements of a challenge, but I'm glad that I did. It's a collection of the stories of countries that existed at one time (sometimes only for less than an hour!) but which no longer are considered countries. I was only familiar with a few of the stories (well, duh, Texas as I had to study Texas history in school not only one year but two). It was interesting to see that many of them seem to have been created by the scheming of various greedy and strikingly odd men.