Author : Terry Deary
Publisher : Scholastic Reference
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 2006
Category : High interest-low vocabulary books
ISBN : 9780439877862
An illustrated, humorous introduction to world history with a emphasis on violence and villains.
Author : Terry Deary
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781407103501
Terry Deary presents the foul but fascinating story of humans, from brain-nibbling Neanderthals to the terrified teenage soldiers in the twentieth century - all in glorious and goriest colour and now in flexi-bound paperback format. The truth about foul fighting is revealed in the Horrible Histories Rules of War, and readers can meet fifty of the most vicious villains of all time in the frightful fold-out feature. History has never been so horrible.
Author : Terry Deary
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 35,36 MB
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1407129554
If you ever hear old folk moaning on about the world today, just remind them how woeful things were in World War II. When Hitler's horrid army were goose-stepping round the globe, nearly everything in Europe was totally AWFUL! Read on to discover... * The dreadful truth about Dad's Army * What happened when an elephant got loose in the blackout * Who made a meal out of maggots * Which smelly soldiers were sniffed out by their enemies * Why wearing white knickers could kill you What with doodlebug bombs dropping out of the sky and sweet rationing driving kids (and teachers) mad, life in the Second World War was truly wicked. So from snow-bound cities under siege to fly-infested jungle trenches, and from rotten rationing recipes to awful invasions, discover all the dire details about the worst war EVER!
Author : Terry Deary
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 22,41 MB
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1407161970
Sail back to a vicious time with fearsome seafaring Viking warriors with big boats, big shields and enormous ginger beards. Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Vicious Vikings, including Viking gods in wedding dresses, corpses on trial and Death by booby-trapped statues. With a bold, accessible new look, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans. Revised by the author and illustrated throughout to make Horrible Histories more accessible to young readers.
Author : Andrew Marr
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 18,92 MB
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0230767532
Fresh, exciting and vividly readable, this is popular history at its very best. Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey, political journalist Andrew Marr revisits some of the traditional epic stories, from classical Greece and Rome to the rise of Napoleon, but surrounds them with less familiar material, from Peru to the Ukraine, China to the Caribbean. He looks at cultures that have failed and vanished, as well as the origins of today’s superpowers, and finds surprising echoes and parallels across vast distances and epochs. A History of the World is a book about the great change-makers of history and their times, people such as Cleopatra, Genghis Khan, Galileo and Mao, but it is also a book about us. For ‘the better we understand how rulers lose touch with reality, or why revolutions produce dictators more often than they produce happiness, or why some parts of the world are richer than others, the easier it is to understand our own times.’
Author : Terry Deary
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,77 MB
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1407161652
Readers can discover all the foul facts about the FRIGHTFUL FIRST WORLD WAR, including what the 'Fat King' did with food scraps and dead horses, how sniffing your own pee could save your life in a gas attack and why a pair of old socks gave away top German secrets. With a bold, accessible new look and a heap of extra-horrible bits, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans. Revised by the author to make HORRIBLE HISTORIES more accessible to young readers. www.horrible-histories.co.uk
Author : Terry Deary
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 37,95 MB
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1407161733
Readers can discover all the foul facts about the MEASLY MIDDLE AGES, including why chickens had their bottoms shaved, a genuine jester's joke and what ten-year-old treacle was used for. With a bold, accessible new look, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans.
Author : Matthew White
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 42,89 MB
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0393081923
A compulsively readable and utterly original account of world history—from an atrocitologist’s point of view. Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White's epic examination of history's one hundred most violent events, or, in White's piquant phrasing, "the numbers that people want to argue about." Reaching back to 480 BCE's second Persian War, White moves chronologically through history to this century's war in the Congo and devotes chapters to each event, where he surrounds hard facts (time and place) and succinct takeaways (who usually gets the blame?) with lively military, social, and political histories. With the eye of a seasoned statistician, White assigns each entry a ranking based on body count, and in doing so he gives voice to the suffering of ordinary people that, inexorably, has defined every historical epoch. By turns droll, insightful, matter-of-fact, and ultimately sympathetic to those who died, The Great Big Book of Horrible Things gives readers a chance to reach their own conclusions while offering a stark reminder of the darkness of the human heart.
Author : Terry Deary
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 36,40 MB
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1407129457
Do you like your history horrifying? Then the Terrifying Tudors will tantalise you! Shudder at the mad Tudor monarchs and their suffering subjects, who were always losing their heads. Discover what Tudors did in the good times and the gory times, from their great goose fairs and foul festivals to the terrible tricks of their ruthless royal family.
Author : Terry Deary
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 28,55 MB
Release : 2016-02-04
Category :
ISBN : 1407161776
Readers can discover all the facts about the SAVAGE STONE AGE such as what they used instead of toilet paper, why a hole in the skull is good for headaches and how to make a Stone Age mummy. With a bold new look, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans. Revised by the author and illustrated throughout to make HORRIBLE HISTORIES more accessible to young readers.
