Look insideHorrible Histories: The Woeful Second World War
If you want to hear the dreadful truth about Dad’s Army, or how sweet rationing drove a teacher to steal from his pupils, or what happened when an elephant got loose in the blackout, the full foul facts about life on the home front are laid out before your ears. It’s packed with quizzes, sketches and jokes, as well as mini-dramas and real life re-enactments—telling you the kind of foul facts which just aren’t available from a classroom education!
Recent reviews
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Helped me in school.
4 March 2014
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Terry Deary has made a brilliant, educational set of books! They teach you all about how the people of the past live! I would recommend an age range of 8-12 for this book
6 March 2013
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its a good book
6 March 2013
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want to know:
who made a meal of maggots
which smelly soilders were sniffed out by there enemies
why white knickers could kill you
22 July 2010
Who's reading this?
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
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