*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 nations favourite historians, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, take on the most curious moments in history, answering the questions we didnt even think to ask . . . - What was the most disastrous party in history? - How did a hair appointment almost blow Churchills cover? - Why did the Nazis believe they were descended from the people of Atlantis? - What made Alfred the Great so great? From a British political leader who allegedly plotted to feed his lover to alligators, to a Brazilian emperor whose subjects mistook him for a banana, there is nothing too big or too small for Tom and Dominic to unpick.
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Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 23 May 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781526667731
About Dominic SandbrookDr Tom HollandGoalhanger Podcasts
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 Sheffield before becoming a writer. He is best known for his histories of Britain since the 1950s most recently Who Dares Wins as well as a series of history books for younger readers Adventures in Time. He has presented many documentaries on BBC Two and Radio 4 and is a columnist for The Times and book critic for the Sunday Times.