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The Rest is History: From Ancient Rome to Ronald Reagan―History's Most Curious Questions, Answered

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From Alexander the Great to Watergate, this unique, witty book based on the massively popular history podcast is full of wisdom and good old-fashioned banter.

"These bespectacled, middle-aged bookworms have somehow made history alluring, borderline sexy.” ―Times (UK)

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.

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“A fun and easy read...the authors’ sense of humour, combined with what feels like bottomless knowledge of their subject, really does make history seem interesting, enjoyable and even fun...it’s quite different from other history books. Holland and Sandbrook’s approach to asking curious questions, and then answering them, takes the reader on an idiosyncratic ride through history...The Rest is History is most certainly a readable book. It’s educational without being didactic, and thought provoking without being too taxing.”―Independent (UK)

“These two bespectacled, middle-aged bookworms have somehow made history alluring, borderline sexy.”―Times (UK)

“I recently gave my dad a copy of The Rest Is History, the printed spinoff to the podcast hosted by Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland. The man absolutely wolfed it down. He’d never heard the podcast before, but the book’s tone—bitty, authoritative pop history—was like a cruise missile aimed directly at his brain stem.”―Guardian (UK)

“A wacky collection of historical musings, charts, wildly random Top 10 lists, and illustrations by Adam Doughty that are as irreverent as they are hilarious (just like the podcast)...Laughter and chuckles abound, making this a jolly, informative read for the history fan and neophyte alike.”―Shelf Awareness

“This compilation of the historically odd and downright wacky is the book version of their popular podcast...Clever, lighthearted history from serious historians.”―Sydney Morning Herald

“Reasonable people might well have been turned off revisionist history by Ridley Scott’s dull, flat, thin cinematic version of Napoleon’s life. An antidote lies close to hand, in the form of a book-length write-up of the popular podcast, The Rest Is History.”―Interpreter

“A book to gift every history buff.”―Readings

“As a way to learn big chunks of history in a fast and entertaining way, this written version is arguably even more effective than its popular audio parent.”―Business Post (Ireland)

About the Author

The Rest is History is hosted by historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook and produced by Goalhanger Podcasts. The UK’s leading independent podcast production company, Goalhanger generates millions of listens each month from across the globe. Its other podcasts include The Rest is Politics, Empire, We Have Ways of Making You Talk, Battleground, and The Rest is Football.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ PublicAffairs
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 5, 2023
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1541704517
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1541704510
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.33 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.33 x 1.25 x 9.56 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #88,721 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • Customer Reviews:
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    Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, biographer and broadcaster. He is the author of Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Persian Fire his history of the Graeco-Persian wars, won the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award in 2006; Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom, a panoramic account of the two centuries on either side of the apocalyptic year 1000; In the Shadow of the Sword, which covers the collapse of Roman and Persian power in the Near East, and the emergence of Islam; and Dynasty, a portrait of Rome's first imperial dynasty.

    He has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for the BBC. His translation of Herodotus was published in 2013 by Penguin Classics. His biography of Æthelstan, the first King of England, was published in 2016 under the Penguin Monarchs series, and his biography of Æthelflæd, England’s Forgotten Founder, was a Ladybird Expert Book published in 2019. In 2007, he was the winner of the Classical Association prize, awarded to ‘the individual who has done most to promote the study of the language, literature and civilisation of Ancient Greece and Rome’.

    Holland is the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Making History. He has written and presented a number of TV documentaries, for the BBC and Channel 4, on subjects ranging from ISIS to dinosaurs.

    He served two years as the Chair of the Society of Authors and is Chair of the British Library’s PLR Advisory Committee.

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