*NOW WITH A FUN PUB QUIZ* *THE PERFECT FATHER''S DAY GIFT*''An idiosyncratic ride through history'' Independent ''Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age'' The TimesThe 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-- What was the most disastrous party in history?- How did a hair appointment almost blow Churchill-s cover?- Why did the Nazis believe they were descended from the people of Atlantis?- What made Alfred the Great so great?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.
