Customer Reviews
Gets kids interested in history - By: Island Castaway, 16 Jan 2008 
My 9 year old devoured this & the 2007 Annual last year within days of receiving them both (and he's a bit of a reticent reader). Even tho some of the stories are pretty grim, it's real history, & my son loved reading & reading & reading about everything. And when he could quote us back the facts (even if his objective was to make us cringe), we knew he'd actually been learning something along the way.
Wicked book! - By: N. Moore, 21 Jun 2007 Definately one of the most discusting booksin the world! This grusome book was shown to us by Terry. Do not read this book before you are about to eat! It may be discusting but it is one of the most facinating books about world history. You should buy this book, it will make your life more exiting!
A cover that YOU SIMPLY CAN'T MISS - in its ... er...`understated' tones of vivid ORANGE and PURPLE! - By: Amazon Reviewer, 12 Mar 2007 `...and that `subdued' cover opens to 93 pages, split over 16 chapters:-
Introduction
Horrible hunters
Savage cities
Terrible tombs
The awesome East
Rotten Rome
Beastly barbarians
Nasty knights
Terrifying torture
Super sacrifice
Evil explorers
Rowdy rebellions
Cruel criminals
Woeful workers
Wicked wars
Epilogue
finishing with a `Vicious Villains' Fold-Out with 50 of the foulest!'
If you have read the regular `Horrible History' series of books, you will be aware of the wayin which TERRY DEARY puts knowledge across,in a humorous way. This book is no exception.
`Ever since the first `Horrible Histories' (HH) book appeared they have been used for all sorts of things....
To prove history teachers wrong
To pester parents with endless questions & quizzes
To disgust Grannies with foul facts at the tea table
(HH books have also been used to prop up wobbly tables, block draughts under doors & been torn up for toilet paper - but we won't go into that!)
Delightfully illustrated, throughout,in colour, by Martin Brown.
Horrible Histories - In General! - By: , 30 Dec 2005 I loved this book when I received it during the Christmas holidays, & not to long after the few days of festive action had ended. It tells you all about your subject & useful facts. Horrible Historiesin general are great books, providing facts & fun for all!
I would recommend every part of all of the Horrible Histories books!
Gorgeous!!!!! - By: , 19 Dec 2003 This book celebrates the tenth anniversary & just for start it tells you the history of the World,it'sin full-size edition & for the first time ever isin full-color!!!This book talks about all the times,empires & people of the history from: the Horrible Hunters,Savage Cities,Terrible Tombs,The Awesome East,Rotten Rome,Beastly Barbarians,Nasty Knights to Terrifing Torture,Super Sacrifices,Evil Explorers.Rowdy Rebellions,Cruel Criminals,Woeful Workers,Wicked Wars & plus it has a fold-out that shows you the Fifty Biggest Vicious Villains from all the History!!!You will also meet the hoorible Rules of the War,the Slum Street Game & know:
-Why Alexander the Great Banned beards?
-What Smelly sport was played by samuray warriors?
_Who tried to bump of her enemies with a cake made of poisoned bath-water?
-Who had flat,or pointed or sqeezed heads?
-How was the life of the famous pirate "Black Beard" & what was his real name?
This book is hillarious,educational,and full of beatiful illustrations!!
