Nostradamus: Countdown to Apocalypse by Jean-Charles de Fontbrune

Nostradamus: Countdown to Apocalypse by Jean-Charles de Fontbrune is a book that claims to interpret the prophecies of Nostradamus, a 16th-century physician and astrologer who supposedly predicted future events through cryptic verses.

The book was published in 1983 and was a bestseller. It made the claim that Nostradamus predicted many world events including the French and Russian revolutions, the rise and death of Hitler, and other historical events.

However, critics of the book argue that Nostradamus’s writings are deliberately vague and open to interpretation, and that his supposed prophecies can be made to fit almost any event. Furthermore, many of the historical events that Fontbrune claims Nostradamus predicted could be seen as coincidences or cases of hindsight bias.

Despite the criticism, Nostradamus: Countdown to Apocalypse remains a popular book among those interested in prophecy and the paranormal.