Download or read book Horrible Histories Special Rotten Rulers written by Terry Deary and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers can discover all the foul facts about ROTTEN RULERS, including who gave the job of high priest to a donkey, who choked to death while eating a crow and who celebrated victory by eating his enemy's head.
Download or read book Horrible Histories Rotten Rulers written by Terry Deary and published by . This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History with the nasty bits left in! Rotten Rulers gives you the low-down on the world's most loathsome leaders. From bizarre tsars and evil emperors to crazy kings and queens, people all around the world have suffered at the hands of their rulers for centuries. Whether they're nutty or nasty, fat or foul, those in charge rarely get it right. Want to know: who gave the job of high priest to a donkey? Who choked to death while eating a crow? Who celebrated victory by eating his enemy's head? Read on for the power-crazed president who still rules from the grave and find out about the suffering slave who was ordered to collect 500 kilos of spider webs for his boss. Meet Genghis the Mongolian murderer and discover just how terrible Ivan really was. History has never been so horrible!
Download or read book Horrible Histories Top 50 Kings and Queens written by Terry Deary and published by Scholastic Non-Fiction. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Top 50 Kings and Queens is packed full of foul facts and loathsome lists all about our ruthless rulers. Filled with new material, this pocket-sized guide to rotten royalty has all the trademark Horrible Histories humour. With full-colour layouts and new illustrations from Martin Brown, it's perfect for fans of the series and new readers alike.
Download or read book Horrible Histories Rotten Romans written by Terry Deary and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go back into the really rotten times of the Romans, where there were beastly battles, deadly doctors and marvellous myths. Discover what Roman soldiers wore under their kilts, how ancient Britons got their hair nice and how Romans told the future with dead chickens. With a bold, accessible new look, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans. Revised by the author to make Horrible Histories more accessible to young readers.
Download or read book Who s Horrible in History written by Terry Deary and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title features fifty foul people from history-personally selected by His Dearyness for their beastly behaviour. It is split into ten sections, including Awful Assassins, Rotten Rebels, Wicked Women, Crazy Criminals and Ruthless Rulers. Each section follows a different format-stories, newspaper articles, diary entries, fact files and so on.
Download or read book Horrible Histories Special Cruel Kings and Mean Queens written by Terry Deary and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history book which shows you monarchs as they really were - mad, menacing and murderous! Find out which king died after falling off the toilet, why people thought King John was a werewolf, and why Queen Anne's feet were covered in garlic. Packed with treacherous treason, evil executions and savage struggles for the throne, this is royal history with the nasty bits left in!
Download or read book Horrible Histories Vicious Vikings New Edition written by Terry Deary and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sail back to a vicious time with fearsome seafaring Viking warriors with big boats, big shields and enormous ginger beards. Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Vicious Vikings, including Viking gods in wedding dresses, corpses on trial and Death by booby-trapped statues. With a bold, accessible new look, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans. Revised by the author and illustrated throughout to make Horrible Histories more accessible to young readers.
Download or read book Horrible Histories Special Rowdy Revolutions written by Terry Deary and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OK - we know that history is horrible. But it's never nastier than in a rowdy revolution, when the perilous people rise up against their rotten rulers! This book gives you the bone-chilling facts behind some of the bloodiest revolutions ever, from France and Russia to China and India.
Download or read book Horrible Histories Gorgeous Georgians written by Terry Deary and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn all about the Gorgeous Georgians, like their sneaky schemes for hiding personal hygiene problems and the schoolchildren who went to war with their teachers! With a bold, accessible new look and revised by the author, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans.
Download or read book Horrible Histories The Awesome Egyptians written by Terry Deary and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They're not called the Awesome Egyptians for nothing! The foul pharaohs and their suffering slaves got up to all sorts of terrible tricks. Read this book to... * Meet some fabulous pharaohs... and their mummies * Make revolting recipes for 3000 year old sweets * Discover which king had the most blackheads * Find out why some pharaohs wore false beards * Learn to become an Ancient Egyptian in 10 not-so-easy steps! If you like your history horrible, the Awesome Egyptians and their moaning mummies have it all wrapped up! Aaaarrrrgh!
Download or read book Perilous Pirates written by Terry Deary and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terry Deary reveals the terrible truth behind the lousy pirate legends and lies . . . so forget the brave heroes swinging from masts and the handsome young men sailing the seven seas, for this is history at its most horrible! Readers can decide who was the baddest of the bunch in the top ten putrid pirates, discover why the women pirates were just as wicked as the men and learn to talk the patter of a pirate. Plus there are foul facts on the ships they sailed, the punishments they suffered and the rules they lived by. Now the nasty bits are at your fingertips!
Download or read book Top 50 Kings and Queens written by Terry Deary and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Top 50 Kings and Queens is packed full of foul facts and loathsome lists all about our ruthless rulers. Filled with new material, this pocket-sized guide to rotten royalty has all the trademark Horrible Histories humour. With eye-catching layouts and new illustrations from Martin Brown, it's perfect for fans of the series and new readers alike.
Download or read book Cruel Kings and Mean Queens written by Terry Deary and published by Horrible Histories Special. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers can discover all the foul facts about CRUEL KINGS AND MEAN QUEENS, including which king died after falling off the toilet, why people thought King John was a werewolf and why Queen Anne's feet were covered in garlic. With a striking newspaper look throughout!
Download or read book Horrible Histories Woeful Second World War written by Terry Deary and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you ever hear old folk moaning on about the world today, just remind them how woeful things were in World War II. When Hitler's horrid army were goose-stepping round the globe, nearly everything in Europe was totally AWFUL! Read on to discover... * The dreadful truth about Dad's Army * What happened when an elephant got loose in the blackout * Who made a meal out of maggots * Which smelly soldiers were sniffed out by their enemies * Why wearing white knickers could kill you What with doodlebug bombs dropping out of the sky and sweet rationing driving kids (and teachers) mad, life in the Second World War was truly wicked. So from snow-bound cities under siege to fly-infested jungle trenches, and from rotten rationing recipes to awful invasions, discover all the dire details about the worst war EVER!
Download or read book Horrible Histories Special Wicked Words written by Terry Deary and published by Horrible Histories Special. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers can discover all the foul facts about WICKED WORDS, including how to be very rude ... without anybody knowing, some murky Medieval jokes and what to say if someone calls you mundungus, hackum or Jabbernowl. With a heap of extra-horrible bits, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans.
Download or read book Horrible Histories Slimy Stuarts New Edition written by Terry Deary and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I bet you've never even heard of the Stuarts. They don't sound very terrible, do they? But did you know some slimy Stuarts ate toads, snails and fleas?
Download or read book Dirty Rotten Rulers written by Jim Pipe and published by Ticktock Books, Limited. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They might have been glamorous but they were grimy with it! Take a trip back through history and uncover the filth of the pharaohs, the horrors of Henry VIII and the vileness of Vlad in this warts-and-all story of the world's most infamous rulers. With amazingly detailed illustrations from a world renowned artist and sharp, bite-sized text, this lavish look inside the minds of the mad is an absolute must-read for children.
