Bloomsbury presents The Rest is History by The Rest is History, read by Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook.
& apos; An idiosyncratic ride through history& apos; Independent
& apos; Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age& apos; The Times
The nation's favourite historians, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, take on the most curious moments in history, answering the questions we didn't even think to ask
- What was the most disastrous party in history?
- How did a hair appointment almost blow Churchill's cover?
- Why did the Nazis believe they were descended from the people of Atlantis?
- What made Alfred the Great so great?
From a British political leader who allegedly plotted to feed his lover to alligators, to a Brazilian emperor whose subjects mistook him for a banana, there is nothing too big or too small for Tom and Dominic to unpick.