Britain's Really Rottenest Years: Why This Year Might Not be Such a Rotten One After All
Why This Year Might Not be Such a Rotten One After All
$46.33
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2009
Summary
Britain’s Rottenest Years is not just a bad news story. It is a fantastically readable leapfrog through British history which takes us, via the interesting bits, from the misery of the Roman invasion of AD60 (when 50,000 Roman thugs invaded) to the Thatcherite year of discontent of 1981.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781906021580 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1906021589 |
| Author: | Derek Wilson |
| Publisher: | Octopus Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Short Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2009 |
| Weight: | 359g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 132mm x 26mm |
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Just like Horrible Histories, but for grown-ups… Perfect.
Just like Horrible Histories, but for grown-ups… Perfect.
About The Author
Derek Wilson
Derek Wilson is one of Britain’s leading popular historians. Since leaving Cambridge, where he took the Archbishop Cranmer Prize for post-graduate research, he has written over 50 books including Rothschild: A Story of Wealth and Power and Hans Holbein: Portrait of an Unknown Man, as well as making numerous radio and TV appearances.
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