AuthorTerry Deary
NarratorPolly Boyes
Duration3h 17m
CategoriesChildren and Young Adult Non-Fiction and Educational Titles, History
Key StageKS2
PublisherInhouse
VersionUnabridged
Horrible Christmas is filled with all the festive facts every Horrible Histories reader wanted to know, but were too stuffed full of mince pies to ask! The complete horrible history of Christmas tells tales from the dark days when Puritans tried to abolish Christmas, to Christmas in the trenches when the British and Germans traded bullets for footballs. Plus dreadful jokes, rotten recipes, and a Christmas quiz!
Author: Kenneth C. Davis
Author Kenneth C. Davis
Narrator Macleod Andrews
Duration 4h 40m
With 2018 marking the 100th anniversary of the worst disease outbreak in modern history, the story of the Spanish flu is more relevant today than ever. This dramatic narrative, told through the stories and voices of the people caught in the deadly maelstrom, explores how this vast, global epidemic was intertwined with the horrors of World War I-and...
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Author: Roberta Edwards
Author Roberta Edwards
Narrator Kevin Pariseau
Duration 53m
Ever since Howard Carter uncovered King Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, the young pharaoh has become a symbol of the wealth and mystery of ancient Egypt. This Who Was . . . ? explains the life and times of this ancient Egyptian ruler, covering the story of the tomb's discovery, as well as myths and so-called mummy curses.
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Horrible Histories: The Smashing Saxons
Author: Terry Deary
Author Terry Deary
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 32m
Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Smashing Saxons, including who got cow pats as Christmas presents, why wearing a pig on your head is lucky and how to make a dead Saxon happy.
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Author: Terry Deary
Author Terry Deary
Narrator Louise Amos
Duration 4h 51m
Readers can discover all the foul facts about Scotland, including the truth about William Wallace, the disgusting details of sick Scottish torture techniques, and how to terrify a tourist with gory Scottish ghost stories. With a bold, accessible new look and a heap of extra-horrible bits, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet...
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Author: Terry Deary
Author Terry Deary
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 36m
It's history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: Why the Aztecs liked to eat scum? When the world is going to end? How to play a really violent ball game? Discover all the foul facts about the Angry Aztecs - all the gore and more!
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Author: Pam Pollack
Author Pam Pollack
Narrator Karyn O'Bryant
Duration 56m
Joan of Arc was born in a small French village during the worst period of the Hundred Years' War. For generations, France had been besieged by the British. At age 11, Joan began to see religious visions telling her to join forces with the King of France. By the time she was a teenager, she was leading troops into battle in the name of her country....
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Author: Terry Deary
Author Terry Deary
Narrator Huw Parmenter
Duration 37m
The Viking invaders have arrived to make Ellie and her fellow villagers slaves! But nobody at the monastery where she and her brother, Symeon, live, will believe that they are under attack! Will they be able to outwit the raiders and escape?
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Author: Livia Bitton-Jackson
Author Livia Bitton-Jackson
Narrator Christine Williams
Duration 6h 37m
Imagine being a thirteen-year-old girl in love with boys, school, family-life itself. Then suddenly, in a matter of hours, your life is shattered by the arrival of a foreign army. You can no longer attend school, have possessions, talk to your neighbors. One day your family has to leave your house behind and move into a crowded ghetto, where you lo...
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Author: Irene Gut Updike
Author Irene Gut Updike
Narrator Hope Davis
Duration 7h 6m
IRENE GUT WAS just 17 in 1939, when the Germans and Russians devoured her native Poland. Just a girl, really. But a girl who saw evil and chose to defy it.
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Horrible Histories: Awesome Egyptians
Author: Terry Deary, Peter Hepplewhite
Author Terry Deary, Peter Hepplewhite
Narrator Ffion Jones
Duration 2h 45m
They're not called the Awesome Egyptians for nothing! The foul pharaohs and their suffering slaves got up to all sorts of terrible tricks. Read this book to... Meet some fabulous pharaohs... and their mummies. Make revolting recipes for 3000 year old sweets. Discover which king had the most blackheads. Find out why some pharaohs wore false beards....
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