The Rest is History - The official book from the makers of the hit podcast

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER<BR><BR>*Now with a fun pub quiz*<BR>'An idiosyncratic ride through history' Independent <BR>'Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age' The Times<BR><BR>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 . . .<BR><BR>- What was the most disastrous party in history?<BR>- How did a hair appointment almost blow Churchill's cover?<BR>- Why did the Nazis believe they were descended from the people of Atlantis?<BR>- What made Alfred the Great so great?<BR><BR>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.