Customer Reviews
WAR EXPLAINED SIMPLY ( IF THAT`S POSSIBLE..) - By: Leeds lass, 10 Jul 2008 
Read this book - & then pass it onto the kids - guaranteed you will notch up at least one fact that you didn`t know about the world wars.
`Two Horrible Books in One', from the `Dynamic Duo' - Terry Deary and Martin Brown - By: Amazon Reviewer, 21 Feb 2007 
Standing at the same height as `Mad Miscellany', this book is `Two Horrible Booksin One', from the `Dynamic Duo' - Terry Deary & Martin Brown:-
`The Frightful First World War` & `The Woeful Second World War`!
The usual Deary humour flows through the 256 pages packed with facts, writtenin a variety of fonts & full of black & white illustrations & cartoons, from Martin Brown.
First World War
Split into 5 chapters:-
1914 - The year of the first shot
1915 - The year of total war
1916 - The year of the Somme
1917 - The year of the mud
1918 - The year of exhaustion
with an introduction, a `Test Your Teacher' section
and an epilogue.
Second World War
Split into 7 chapters:-
Terrible timeline
Home horrors
Frightful fighting
Awesome animals
Lousy liars
Chilling for children
The Holocaust
with an introduction & an epilgue.
`23rd August 1939
Shock! Deadly enemies unite! Mr Adolf Hitler of Germany (with a toothbrush moustache) & Mr Josef Stalin of the Soviet Union (with a yard-brush moustache) peacefully agree not to fight one another. No chance. Never trust a man with a moustache.....
1st September 1939
A. Hitler (the liar) had promised not to invade Poland. Today his army invades Poland...... & `peacefully' shares it with the Soviets. No one asked the Poles, of course. Britain & France say they'll fight for Poland's freedom. That means war!............'
Stuffez-vous, Monsieur Itlaire! - By: Christian Spriet, 09 Sep 2004 Whether frightful or woeful, the two world wars must have been occasions we sadly missed out from our history books. Ladies & gents: forget those nightmarish hystery classes, snap up your copy of this & engross yourself.
Mind you: this IS an instructive survey (a teacher should know), butin to the bargain (£5.99 or less) one get the odds & ends & titbits the self-respecting history book looks down on with condescension.
This is facts seasoned by the naked chefs of history with a pinch of Chaplin's Shoulder Arms & Beany Blackadder.
Wanted things interactive? What about the quizzes, the recipes, the do's & don'ts, not to forget, Martin Brown's tongue-in-cheek cartoons.
Why wait? Forget "vere'ave you'idden ze biddy, Leclerc?", but roll up the barrel & snap up that copy.
And eat your heart out, Duglaz'Aig.
Loved It!!!!!!!!! - By: , 18 Nov 2003 This book had show me how Terry Deary is a great autor, because he could tell a sad & serious fact(the war)in a very funny & intresting manner without getting the reader bored to death.This book tells you some ghosts stories that the soldiers belived,the importance of the animalsin the two wars,all of this(and a lot more) whit true stories.The illustrations are terrific!Martin Brown really draws good!!If you want to know:
-how sniffing your ow pee could save your lifein the WW1?
-how a pair of old socks give away german top-secrets?
-Why wearing white kinickers could get you killedin the WW2
and-What the heck is a Zepplin?
The epilogue of the two books are beutiful!!!!!!!!!!
