The Rest is History: History's Most Curious Questions Answered, Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook

The Rest is History: History's Most Curious Questions Answered, Tom Holland & Dominic SandbrookNew Paperback *NOW WITH A FUN PUB QUIZ* Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys theres 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 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:

covering great-power rivalry

Delving into the mysterious origins of plant and fungal toxins

conjuring these and hundreds of other insect jewels out of the darkness

this is the perfect gift for the armchair traveller and cycling adventurer

the former deputy head of the Evidenzburo

Written by one of Britain's most talented young writers

- Was Richard Nixon more like Caligula or Claudius

about how growing demands for harvests resulted in the increased shipment of enslaved peoples

sensationally reported in the tabloid press

and Sylvia Sayer

ranging from such classics as The Book of Songs and the Confucian Analects

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