The Rest is History

The official book from the makers of the hit podcast

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The Rest is History

By: Goalhanger, Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook

Narrated by: Dominic Sandbrook, Tom Holland

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Bloomsbury presents The Rest is History by The Rest is History, read by Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook.

'An idiosyncratic ride through history' Independent
'Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age' The Times

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…

- What was the most disastrous party in history?
- How did a hair appointment almost blow Churchill’s cover?
- Why did the Nazis believe they were descended from the people of Atlantis?
- What made Alfred the Great so great?

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.

GoalhangerTom HollandDominic SandbrookDominic SandbrookTom HollandBloomsbury Publishing

20th Century

Death & Dying

Europe

Great Britain

Modern

Politics & Activism

Presidents & Heads of State

Sociology

Funny

War

Witty

Thought-Provoking

Military

Ancient Greece

Winston Churchill

Ancient History

20th Century Death & Dying Europe Great Britain Modern Politics & Activism Presidents & Heads of State Sociology Funny War Witty Thought-Provoking Military Ancient Greece Winston Churchill Ancient History

Critic reviews

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

This compilation of the historically odd and downright wacky is the book version of their popular podcast . . . Clever, light-hearted history from serious historians

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

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 (Stuart Heritage)

A book to gift every history buff

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

Most relevant

Tom, Dominic and the team knock it out of the park once again. Witty, engaging, plenty of in-jokes but not alienating for new listeners. And what impressions! Loved it.