Look insideHorrible Histories: Frightful First World War
The classic bestseller! No more boring nice-guy nonsense about history. It’s time to learn it the horrible way. And there’s nothing more horrible than the First World War: a global conflict so terrible and deadly it killed over 20 million people. (Told you it was nasty.) Soldiers drowning in mud. Pilots blown out of the sky. The facts in here are seriously ghastly. But if you like fat kings, dead horses, stinky socks, poison gas or sniffing your own pee, you’ve come to the right book…
- A bestselling original Horrible Histories classic
- Full of jokes, cartoons, quizzes and funny facts
- Written in Terry Deary’s brilliantly witty style
- Over 25 million Horrible Histories books sold
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Authors
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Terry Deary
Terry is a former actor, theatre-director and Drama teacher and currently lives in County Durham. He has written over 150 books in the UK, including 44 Horrible Histories titles, and was voted the fifth most popular living children’s author in a 2005 Guardian survey.
Awards
Terry Deary won the 2001 Blue Peter Prize for Rotten Romans.
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Martin Brown
Martin Brown was born in Australia but currently lives in Dorset. In 1993, he illustrated the first of the HORRIBLE HISTORIES, and has now contributed to more than 60 titles in the series.
Awards
Blue Peter, Best Factual Book 2002 for Terrible Tudors