The Rest is History

<b>*NOW WITH A FUN PUB QUIZ* *THE PERFECT FATHER''S DAY GIFT*</b><b>''An idiosyncratic ride through history'' <i>Independent </i></b><b>''Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much </b><b>reinvented popular history for the </b><b>modern age'' <i>The Times</i></b>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¿<b>- 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?</b>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.