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The Smashing Saxons
Автор: Terry Deary Жанр: Scholastic Издательство: Scholastic Год: 2007 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20092008-06-11
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Want to know: • who got cow pats as Christmas presents? • why wearing a pig on your head is lucky? • how to make a dead Saxon happy? Discover all the foul facts about the Smashing Saxons — all the gore and more!
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The Stormin' Normans
Автор: Terry Deary Жанр: Scholastic Издательство: Scholastic Год: 2007 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20092008-06-11
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Want to know: Why Norman knights slept with a dolly? Which pirate hung up his eye-patch and became a saint? Why Crusader ships were defended with barrels of pee? This book lets you discover all the foul facts about the «Stormin' Normans» — all the gore and more!
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Stratford-Upon-Avon
Автор: Terry Deary Жанр: Scholastic Издательство: Scholastic Год: 2006 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20092011-08-23
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Stratford-upon-Avon may be a cute tourist town today, but Terry Deary reveals that the birthplace of Shakespeare was far from pleasant, with civil war struggles and beheadings making its history horrible.
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Terrible Tudors
Автор: Terry Deary Жанр: Scholastic Издательство: Scholastic Год: 2007 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20092008-06-11
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Want to know: • Why Henry VIII thought he'd married a horse? • All about terrible Tudor torture? • Which shocking swear words the Tudors used? Discover all the foul facts about the Terrible Tudors — all the gore and more!
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Vicious Vikings
Автор: Terry Deary Жанр: Scholastic Издательство: Scholastic Год: 2007 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20092008-06-11
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Want to know: • Why some vicious Vikings had names like Fat-thighs, Oaf and Stinking? • How to build a vicious Viking longboat? • Which vicious Viking god dressed up as a woman? Discover all the foul facts about the Vicious Vikings — all the gore and more!
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Vile Victorians
Автор: Terry Deary Жанр: Scholastic Издательство: Scholastic Год: 2007 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20092008-06-11
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Want to know: • What vile Victorian parents called their children? • Who had a gruesome glass eye for every occasion? • When the first public loo was flushed? Discover all the foul facts about the Vile Victorians — all the gore and more!
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Wales
Автор: Terry Deary Жанр: Scholastic Издательство: Scholastic Год: 2008 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 20112010-05-06
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It's history with the nasty bits left in. Want to know: Why Druids split humans in half? How the Normans outwitted the Welsh with a lump of ham? How an army of welsh mums fought off the French once and for all? Discover the dreadful deeds that make the history of Wales so horrible — all the gore and more.
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York
Автор: Terry Deary Жанр: Scholastic Издательство: Scholastic Год: 2005 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20082010-08-23
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Terry Deary offers a whistle-stop tour of York's foul but fascinating history including details of the deadly diseases that plagued the city, why the vicious Vikings made such an impression and the truth about the criminal characters of Turpin and Fawkes. Comes complete with a fold-out map that shows all the horrible highlights of the city.
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Woeful Second World War
Автор: Terry Deary Жанр: Scholastic Издательство: Scholastic Год: 2007 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20092008-06-11
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Want to know: • Who made a meal out of maggots? • Which smelly soldiers were sniffed out by their enemies? • Why white knickers could kill you? Discover all the foul facts about the Woeful Second World War — all the gore and more!
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Villainous Victorians
Автор: Terry Deary Жанр: Scholastic Издательство: Scholastic Год: 2008 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20102009-06-11
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It’s history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: • Why burglars were scared of bogies? • Which poet said he ate an ape? • How a snick fadger might kiddy-nap your spangle? Discover all the foul facts about the Villainous Victorians – all the gore and more!
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10 Best Shakespeare Stories Ever
Автор: Terry Deary Жанр: Scholastic Издательство: Scholastic Год: 2009 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20112012-04-15
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Terry Deary re-tells the bard's ten best stories ... with a modern twist. From midsummer mix-ups and magic, to ten dead in Denmark, fans will love Shakespeare's stories presented as never before. Romeo and Juliet take centre stage in a photo love story and weird witchcraft features in the Ballad of Big Mac. With fact files on Shakespeare's foul wordplay, quick quizzes and hilarious cartoons throughout, this title is 100% Horrible!
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Frightful First World War and Woeful Second World War
Автор: Terry Deary Жанр: Scholastic Издательство: Scholastic Год: 2009 Страниц: 292 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20122012-02-29
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The Frightful First World War tells readers all the horrors and hardships of the war that was meant to last four months ... but ground on for four grim years. The Woeful Second World War reveals the dire details about the worst war ever — from snow-bound cities under siege to fly-infested jungle trenches. Packed with curious quizzes, rotten recipes, gruesome games and terrible tests. History has never been so horrible, now in a brilliant new edition!
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Gorgeous Georgians and Vile Victorians
Автор: Terry Deary Жанр: Scholastic Издательство: Scholastic Год: 2009 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20142011-10-23
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In Gorgeous Georgians readers will meet lords and ladies with personal hygiene problems, as well as the starving and pitiful poor. The Vile Victorians dishes up all the terrible truth about revolting events affecting everyone not so very long ago — from the vile Victorian queen herself, to some vicious Victorian villains. With curious quizzes, rotten recipes, gruesome games and terrible tests, history has never been so horrible. Now in a gorgeous new edition!
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The Groovy Greeks and the Rotten Romans
Автор: Terry Deary Жанр: Scholastic Издательство: Scholastic Год: 2009 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20142011-10-23
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The Groovy Greeks is full of fab facts about the hip 'n' happenin' Greeks. In Rotten Romans, readers follow life for folk in Roman times, from Nasty Nero to brave Brit Boudicca. Featuring curious quizzes, rotten recipes, gruesome games and terrible tests, thanks to this new edition history has never been so horrible!
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Terrible Tudors and Slimy Stuarts
Автор: Terry Deary Жанр: Scholastic Издательство: Scholastic Год: 2009 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20142011-10-23
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Readers will delight in the dreadful details of Tudor life — from cruel kings and queens like horrible Henry VIII to poor peasants and common criminals — in the Terrible Tudors. The Slimy Stuarts is full of foul but fascinating facts about lousy life for the plague-ridden Stuarts, revolting Roundheads and crafty Cavaliers. With curious quizzes, gruesome games and terrible tests, history is now in a horrible new edition!
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Ten Best Greek Legends Ever
Автор: Terry Deary Жанр: Scholastic Издательство: Scholastic Год: 2009 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20112012-04-15
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In this title, from killer king Oedipus to monstrous Medusa's horrible hair, the classic Greek legends are back... with a modern twist. Heroic Heracles sits his SATs and the wife of top god Zeus spills the beans about her legendary husband. Discover foul fact about furies, harpies and other killer creatures plus the evils of the Underworld revealed. This title is 100% horrible.
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The Barmy British Empire and the Blitzed Brits
Автор: Terry Deary Жанр: Scholastic Издательство: Scholastic Год: 2009 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20142011-10-23
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This book features history with twice the nasty bits... and in an incredible new edition! In Barmy British Empire, readers get all the brutal facts about how Britannia really ruled the waves — from infamous antics in India to dreadful deeds down under. Blitzed Brits reveals what life was like for those who stayed at home in World War Two, from foul food facts about rotten rationing to awful evacuation experiences. With curious quizzes, rotten recipes, gruesome games and terrible tests... history has never been so horrible!
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Dublin
Автор: Terry Deary Жанр: Scholastic Издательство: Scholastic Год: 2010 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20142012-07-24
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It's history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: Whose head was put in a pot and pickled? Why the mayor of Dublin put his mum in prison? Which Irish King led his men to battle... from hisbath? Plot your path to the past with the frightful full-colour map — picnic with pirates at St Stephen's Green and creep around the cruel cathedrals.
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Edinburgh
Автор: Terry Deary Жанр: Scholastic Издательство: Scholastic Год: 2010 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20142012-07-24
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It's history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: Whose pickled skin became a sought-after souvenir? Why it's alright to spit on the High Street? How the pupils of Edinburgh High School got away with murder? Plot your path to the past with a frightful fll-colour map of the city's horrible highlights — climb up the cursed castle for tales of reckless raids and hit the High Street for a whole host of historical horrors!
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England
Автор: Terry Deary Жанр: Scholastic Издательство: Scholastic Год: 2009 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20112012-04-15
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It's history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know which monk tried to pinch the devil's nose with a pair of tongs; why some people in the Middle Ages ate dove droppings; and, which English king was accused of being a werewolf? Terry Deary reveals the awful truth behind the rebellions, riots and rumpuses that have made England what it is today (whatever that is). From the cruel Celts right up to the terrible 20th century it's a tale that will make you quake.
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