The Rest is History Returns (Signed first edition)

Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland

ISBN 10: 1526668645 / ISBN 13: 9781526668646

Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, GB, 2024

Beschreibung

Signed first edition (First edition, first printing, signed by the author) THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The world's most successful history podcast . . . Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age' The TimesFrom the podcast legends who brought you The Rest is History comes The Rest is History Returns!This time Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook bring you an alphabetical miscellany, taking on some of history’s best and most bizarre moments. Charge forth against the traitors of the American Revolution, journey through Baghdad to discover the origins of the Arabian Nights and head to Sicily to witness the first face-off between Carthage and Rome. Along the way you'll find the answers to questions like: - Who was Jesus’s wife? - What would it have been like to live-tweet through the eruption of Vesuvius? - Why did the Romans inspire so much American science fiction? - Which Mitford sister tried to seduce her girlish crush, Adolf Hitler? - Who are history's top 10 monkeys? - Was Henry V’s great-grandfather, Edward III, the biggest ‘lad’ in British history? But that’s not all – this book also includes puzzles and a pub quiz. So dust off your tricorne hat, grab your lasso and get ready for a rollicking rollercoaster through the past . . . Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781526668646-SF

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Rest is History Returns (Signed first ...

Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, GB

Erscheinungsdatum: 2024

Einband: hard

Zustand: fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe:

The second book from the creators of the smash-hit number 1 podcast takes us on a dizzying A-Z through the past

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren:

Dominic Sandbrook was educated at Oxford, St Andrews and Cambridge, and was an academic at Sheffield before becoming a writer. He is best known for his histories of Britain since the 1950s, most recently Who Dares Wins, as well as a series of history books for younger readers, Adventures in Time. He has presented many documentaries on BBC Two and Radio 4, and is a columnist for The Times and book critic for the Sunday Times.

Tom Holland is the author of a range of books on ancient and early medieval history. He has translated Herodotus and Suetonius, presented TV documentaries on subjects ranging from dinosaurs to the Islamic State, and been described by The Times as 'a leading English cricketer'.