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The rest is history : history's most curious questions answered / Goalhanger Podcasts with Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook and Iain Hollingshead ; illustrations by Adam Doughty.

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New York : PublicAffairs, 2023.

History -- Miscellanea.

9781541704510 (hardcover) :

1541704517 (hardcover)

424 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

First US edition.

Top 10 most disastrous parties in history -- Can you solve the greatest murder mystery in English history? -- How pigeons won the war and lost the peace -- How to make an Eighteenth-century British rosbif -- Sparta -- Four wars and a funeral: the making of Winston Churchill -- Does the Loch Ness Monster exist? -- The Prime Ministers' World Cup -- The other Watergate tapes -- Tall tales and round tables: the long afterlife of King Arthur -- The greatest escape -- Top 10 eunuchs in history -- What have the Persians ever done for us? -- Tudor succession season two -- The vikings go east -- Historical love island: the interview -- Top ten 'what ifs...' -- Cowboys, Indians and idiots: the wild west -- Eight reasons Nelson won the Battle of Trafalgar -- The rest is fashion -- Top ten theories about Atlantis -- The mystery of the Somerton man -- Robin Hood: men in rewrites -- Jeremy Thorpe: a very British scandal -- Oxford and orcs: the making of J. R. R. Tolkien -- The rise and (almost) fall of the Ashanti -- Top 10 dogs in history -- The white rose -- Riddle me kiss: the power and the poetry of a Korean courtesan -- Crowning glories and disasters -- Battles, bottoms, bowlers, billionaires, Baldwin and baloney: the remarkable history of the Canadian beaver -- Top 10 mistresses in history -- The World Cup of kings and queens: the awards season -- What was so great about Alfred the Great? -- Rasputin's autopsy -- Seven enduring wonders of the City of Babylon -- Why conspiracy theories go viral -- The (movie) making of Ronald Reagan -- What to expect when you're expecting... in Seventeenth-century Britain -- How do you become the greatest female pharaoh of all time? -- Top twelve Australian Prime Ministers -- Is the Emperor Nero the worst person in history? -- The ghosts of Christmases past -- The rest is history's walking tour -- How does a Seventeenth-century Cameroonian slave end up as a Russian general? -- Why was Julius Caesar murdered? -- Last Latin American Emperor top trumps -- The Falklands War: the home front -- The first activist abolitionist -- The real Da Vinci code -- The World Cup... of Gods -- Olympics: ancient and modern -- What sort of St Patrick's day reveller are you? -- Top five French presidents of the Fifth Republic -- Our man in San Još -- When did the Roman Empire actually end?.

"This entertaining companion to the massively popular history podcast tackles everything from Alexander the Great to Agatha Christie, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate-with a unique blend of wit, wisdom, and good old-fashioned banter. The Rest Is History podcast brilliantly distills major moments in human history, covering everything from the Trojan War to a historical ranking of the greatest dogs. Now, this official tie-in book brings the chart-topping podcast's charms to the page, offering readers a fresh, wide-ranging tour of humanity's essential, and essentially weird, moments, including: - Did the Trojan War actually happen? - What was the most disastrous party in history? - Was Richard Nixon more like Caligula or Claudius? - How did a hair appointment almost blow Churchill's cover? - Why did the Nazis believe they were descended from Atlantis? Featuring an introduction from podcast hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, this book cleverly demonstrates that the past--from modern to ancient and every time in between--is both closer to us than we might realize and bafflingly strange, all at once. So run your Egyptian milk bath, strap up your best Spartan sandals, and prepare for a journey down the highways and byways of the human past."--Publisher.

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