The rest is history : history's most curious questions answered
Holland, Tom, 1968-2023
Book
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys . . . There's a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past - from Alexander the Great to Tolkien, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. 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: - Did the Trojan War actually happen? - What was the most disastrous party in history? - Was Richard Nixon more like Caligula or Claudius? - How did a hair appointment almost blow Churchill's cover? - Why did the Nazis believe they were descended from Atlantis? Whether it is sending historical figures to Casa Amor in a series of Love Island, ranking history's most famous eunuchs and pigeons (including Winky, the unsung hero of the Second World War), or debating the meaning of greatness, there is nothing too big or too small for Tom and Dominic to unpick. So run your Egyptian milk bath, strap up your best Spartan sandals, and prepare for a journey down the highways and byways of the human past. . .
Main title:
The rest is history : history's most curious questions answered / Goalhanger Podcasts with Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook and Iain Hollingshead ; illustrations by Adam Doughty.
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Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.©2023.
Collation:
424 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"The official book from the makers of the hit podcast"--cover.Includes index.
Contents:
IntroductionTop 10 most disastrous parties in historyCan you solve the greatest murder mystery in English history?How pigeons won the War - and lost the PeaceHow to make an eighteen-century British RosbifSpartaFour wars and a funeral: the making of Winston ChurchillDoes the Loch Ness Monster exist?The Prime Minister's World CupThe other Watergate tapesTall tales and round tables: the long afterlife of King ArthurThe greatest escapeTop 10 eunuchs in historyWhat have the Persians ever done for us?Tudor succession Season TwoThe Vikings go eastHistorical Love Island: the interviewTop ten 'what ifs...'Cowboys, Indians and idiots: the Wild WestEight reasons Nelson won the Battle of TrafalgarThe rest is fashionTop ten theories about AtlantisThe mystery of the Somerton ManRobin Hood: men in rewritesJeremy Thorpe: a very British scandalOxford and orcs: the making of J. R. R. TolkienThe rise and (almost) fall of the AshantiTop 10 dogs in historyThe White RoseRiddle me kiss: the power and the poetry of a Korean courtesanCrowning glories - and disastersBattles, bottoms, bowlers, billionaires, Baldwin and baloney: the remarkable history of the Canadian beaverTop 10 mistresses in historyThe World Cup of kings and queens: the awards seasonWhat was so great about Alfred the Great?Rasputin's autopsySeven enduring wonders of the City of BabylonWhy conspiracy theories go viralThe (movie) making of Ronald ReaganWhat to expect when you're expecting... in seventeenth-century BritainHow do you become the greatest female pharaoh of all time?Top twelve Australian Prime MinistersThe ghosts of Christmases pastThe Rest Is History's walking tourHow does a seventeenth-century Cameroonian slave end up as a Russian general?Why was Julius Caesar murdered?Last Latin American Emperor top trumpsThe Falklands War: the home frontThe first activist AbolitionistThe real da Vinci CodeThe World Cup... of GodsOlympics: ancient and modernWhat sort of St Patrick's Day reveller are you?Top five French Presidents of the Fifth RepublicOur man in San JoseWhen did the Roman Empire actually end?
ISBN:
9781526667748 (paperback)9781526667694 (hardback)
Dewey class:
909
Language:
English
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BRN:
157652