The Rest is History

<p><b>THE <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br><br><b>*Now with a fun pub quiz*<br>''An idiosyncratic ride through history'' <i>Independent </i></b><br><b>''Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much </b><b>reinvented popular history for the </b><b>modern age'' <i>The Times</i></b><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><b>- 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?</b><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.</p>