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The Rest is History
The Rest Is History
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*NOW WITH A FUN PUB QUIZ* 'An idiosyncratic ride through history' Independent 'Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age' The Times The nation’s favourite historians, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, take on the most curious moments in history, answering the questions we didn’t even think to ask . . . - What was the most disastrous party in history? - How did a hair appointment almost blow Churchill’s cover? - Why did the Nazis believe they were descended from the people of Atlantis? - What made Alfred the Great so great? ... Read more
*NOW WITH A FUN PUB QUIZ* 'An idiosyncratic ride through history' Independent 'Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age' The Times The nation’s favourite historians, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, take on the most curious moments in history, answering the questions we didn’t even think to ask . . . - What was the most disastrous party in history? - How did a hair appointment almost blow Churchill’s cover? - Why did the Nazis believe they were descended from the people of Atlantis? - What made Alfred the Great so great? ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781526667731
SKU
V9781526667731
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99-50
About The Rest Is History
Tom Holland is the author of a range of books on ancient and early medieval history. He has translated Herodotus and Suetonius, presented TV documentaries on subjects ranging from dinosaurs to the Islamic State, and been described by The Times as ‘a leading English cricketer’. Dominic Sandbrook was educated at Oxford, St Andrews and Cambridge, and was an academic at ... Read more
Reviews for The Rest is History
A fun and easy read . . . the authors’ sense of humour, combined with what feels like bottomless knowledge of their subject, really does make history seem interesting, enjoyable and even fun . . . it’s quite different from other history books. Holland and Sandbrook’s approach to asking curious questions, and then answering them, takes the reader on an ... Read more