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Frightful First World War: Woeful Second World War. Terry Deary (Horrible Histories)
History with twice the nasty bits! Want to know: How sniffing your own pee could save your life in the First World War? Why wearing white knickers could get you killed in the Second World War? How a pair of old socks gave away top secrets? The Frightful First World War tells you all the horrors and hardships of the war that was meant to last four months ...but ground on fo...more
Paperback, 279 pages
Published
2009
by Scholastic
(first published 2000)
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Half way through (just starting WWII) and I'm impressed by how informative it is, despite the jokey style, the content does not dodge the unwholesome facts and conditions. Mooched for a BookMooch friend.
I felt that the first world war was dealt with a little better than the second world war. There was no detail of the horror and injury caused by the atomic bombs dropped on Japan, for instance, it really seemed specifically concerned with the European arena and glossed over the reality of ...more
I felt that the first world war was dealt with a little better than the second world war. There was no detail of the horror and injury caused by the atomic bombs dropped on Japan, for instance, it really seemed specifically concerned with the European arena and glossed over the reality of ...more
Horrible Histories is a series of illustrated books published in the UK by Scholastic. They are designed to get children interested in history by concentrating on the trivial, unusual, gory, or unpleasant. They are exceptionally well loved by my history loving children
Excellent - fun, funny and historically accurate.
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A former actor, theatre-director and drama teacher, Deary says he began writing when he was 29. Most famously, he is one of the authors of the Horrible Histories series of books popular among children for their disgusting details, gory information and humorous pictures and among adults for getting children interested in history. Books in the series have been widely translated into other languages ...more
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