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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER<BR><BR>*Now with a fun pub quiz*<BR>'An idiosyncratic ride through history' Independent <BR>'Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age' The Times<BR><BR>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 . . .<BR><BR>- What was the most disastrous party in history?<BR>- How did a hair appointment almost blow Churchill's cover?<BR>- Why did the Nazis believe they were descended from the people of Atlantis?<BR>- What made Alfred the Great so great?<BR><BR>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.

Untertitel
The official book from the makers of the hit podcast

H | B | T | Gramm
197 mm | 126 mm | 32 mm | 358 gr

Erscheinungsjahr
2024

FSK
0

Ausgabe
Taschenbuch

Verlag
Bloomsbury UK

ISBN-10
1526667738

ISBN-13
9781526667731

Autor
Sandbrook, Dominic; Goalhanger; Tom Holland

Sprache
Englisch

Seitenanzahl
437

Themen
Tatsachenberichte: Kriege und Schlachten, Genres der darstellenden Künste: Comedy und Humor, Film, Kino, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Europäische Geschichte: Mittelalter, Antike, Fernsehen, TV, Invasion, Eroberung und Besetzung, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte

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