The classic bestsellers – now with a nastier new look! No more nice-guy nonsense about history. It’s time to learn it the horrible way. Yes – history can be horribly boring when you learn it in the classroom. But with all the nasty bits left in, it’s historically funny! Laughs, disasters & disgusting jokes from the reigning kings of yuck: author Terry Deary & cartoonist Martin Brown. You love this series so much you’ve bought over 25 million copies. How’s that for a horrible fact? Bestselling original Horrible Histories classics Heaps of jokes, cartoons, quizzes & funny facts Written in Terry Deary’s brilliantly witty style Over 25 million Horrible Histories books sold ...

. ..in a horrible new edition! 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 & terrible tests … History has never been so horrible! ...

History with twice the nasty bits… in a disgusting double edition! Brave reader – are you feeling brave? Pillaging plunderers! Bloody battles for the throne! Naughty knights setting off on cruel Crusades! With curious quizzes, rotten recipes, gruesome games & terrible tests, history has never been so horrible! ...

Frightful flying bombs. Rotten rationing. Bloodthirsty blackout murders. Brave young time-travellers can tackle them all in this hilariously horrible handbook! horriblehistories-shopall horriblehistories-wartime wartime-reads-wbd ...

Terry Deary describes the dire details of life in the trenches for both the British & German soldier. Features a gory guide to the wicked weapons used, from knasty knuckledusters to terrifying tanks, plus find out just how foul the food was & what tricks were used to cope with the legions of lice. ...

Lots of things are terrible. Lumpy custard. Leaky shoes. Missing the last bus home. But all those awful things pale beside the terrible trenches of the First World War: so horrific that 100 years later, people still shudder at the thought of them. Revolting rations, shocking shells, traumatic toilets, lousy lice, grisly gangrene: soldiers in the trenches had to endure them all. Imagine living & fighting in a stinky, wet hole in the ground, while bullets zinged above your head & cannons bombarded your hidey-hole. No book can describe that kind of horror, but this book gets pretty close. It’s crammed with fold-out features, yucky facts, lousy letters, songs, timelines & quizzes that bring the trenches to life in Terry Deary’s classic Horrible style. A fascinating novelty book from this best-loved series Packed with fold-outs, letters, pamplets & much more Published to mark the centenary of the end of World War IBy the classic dream team of Terry Deary & Martin Brownpoppy-field-reading-list remembrance-sunday ...

Readers can discover all the foul facts about CRUEL KINGS & MEAN QUEENS, including which king died after falling off the toilet, why people thought King John was a werewolf & why Queen Anne’s feet were covered in garlic. With a striking newspaper look throughout! ...

Readers can discover all the foul facts about CRUEL KINGS & MEAN QUEENS, including which king died after falling off the toilet, why people thought King John was a werewolf & why Queen Anne’s feet were covered in garlic. With a bold look these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans. ...

Readers can discover all the foul facts about DARK KNIGHTS & DINGY CASTLES, including why one nutty knight chopped off his own finger, the revolting truth about a gong-farmer’s job & what went on in gruesome castle garderobes. With a bold look these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans. ...

Step back into an era of cruel crusaders & dreadful dungeons in this horrible history book! Go charging into the days of chivalry, when knights clanked about in shining armour waving weird weapons – & pitiful peasants cleaned up the mess afterwards! ...