The rest is history
history's most curious questions answered
Book - 2023
"This entertaining companion to the massively popular history podcast tackles everything from Alexander the Great to Agatha Christie, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate-with a unique blend of wit, wisdom, and good old-fashioned banter. The Rest Is History podcast brilliantly distills major moments in human history, covering everything from the Trojan War to a historical ranking of the greatest dogs. Now, this official tie-in book brings the chart-topping podcast's charms to the page, offering readers a fresh, wide-ranging tour of humanity's essential, and essentially weird, moments, including: - 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? Featuring an introduction from podcast hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, this book cleverly demonstrates that the past--from modern to ancient and every time in between--is both closer to us than we might realize and bafflingly strange, all at once. 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."--Publisher.
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| 250 | |a First US edition. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Top 10 most disastrous parties in history -- |t Can you solve the greatest murder mystery in English history? -- |t How pigeons won the war and lost the peace -- |t How to make an Eighteenth-century British rosbif -- |t Sparta -- |t Four wars and a funeral: the making of Winston Churchill -- |t Does the Loch Ness Monster exist? -- |t The Prime Ministers' World Cup -- |t The other Watergate tapes -- |t Tall tales and round tables: the long afterlife of King Arthur -- |t The greatest escape -- |t Top 10 eunuchs in history -- |t What have the Persians ever done for us? -- |t Tudor succession season two -- |t The vikings go east -- |t Historical love island: the interview -- |t Top ten 'what ifs...' -- |t Cowboys, Indians and idiots: the wild west -- |t Eight reasons Nelson won the Battle of Trafalgar -- |t The rest is fashion -- |t Top ten theories about Atlantis -- |t The mystery of the Somerton man -- |t Robin Hood: men in rewrites -- |t Jeremy Thorpe: a very British scandal -- |t Oxford and orcs: the making of J. R. R. Tolkien -- |t The rise and (almost) fall of the Ashanti -- |t Top 10 dogs in history -- |t The white rose -- |t Riddle me kiss: the power and the poetry of a Korean courtesan -- |t Crowning glories and disasters -- |t Battles, bottoms, bowlers, billionaires, Baldwin and baloney: the remarkable history of the Canadian beaver -- |t Top 10 mistresses in history -- |t The World Cup of kings and queens: the awards season -- |t What was so great about Alfred the Great? -- |t Rasputin's autopsy -- |t Seven enduring wonders of the City of Babylon -- |t Why conspiracy theories go viral -- |t The (movie) making of Ronald Reagan -- |t What to expect when you're expecting... in Seventeenth-century Britain -- |t How do you become the greatest female pharaoh of all time? -- |t Top twelve Australian Prime Ministers -- |t Is the Emperor Nero the worst person in history? -- |t The ghosts of Christmases past -- |t The rest is history's walking tour -- |t How does a Seventeenth-century Cameroonian slave end up as a Russian general? -- |t Why was Julius Caesar murdered? -- |t Last Latin American Emperor top trumps -- |t The Falklands War: the home front -- |t The first activist abolitionist -- |t The real Da Vinci code -- |t The World Cup... of Gods -- |t Olympics: ancient and modern -- |t What sort of St Patrick's day reveller are you? -- |t Top five French presidents of the Fifth Republic -- |t Our man in San José -- |t When did the Roman Empire actually end?. |
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