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Books in Horrible History series

  • The Frightful First World War

    Terry Deary

    Paperback (Gardners Books, Aug. 31, 2004)
    The details of the dreadful war that affected everyone, from peace-loving protesters to the suffering soldiers. There are ropey rhymes and sad songs, rotten rules and sinister superstitions. Here is the horror and the hardships of World War I, which lasted for four years.
  • Cut-throat Celts Sticker-Activity Book

    Terry Deary, Martin C. Brown

    Paperback (Scholastic, )
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  • The Woeful Second World War

    Terry Deary

    Paperback (Scholastic, Jan. 1, 2007)
    brand new book.
  • The Vicious Vikings

    Terry Deary

    Paperback (Scholastic, Jan. 1, 2007)
    None
  • Horrible History Annual 2012

    Eaglemoss Publications Ltd, Terry Deary, Martin Brown

    Hardcover (Scholastic, )
    None
  • Villainous Victorians

    Terry Deary, Martin Brown

    Paperback (Gardners Books, Aug. 31, 2004)
    Terry revisits one of the best-selling subjects on the list, and gives us more of the grim truth about the nasty nineteenth century.
  • Vile Villains

    Terry Deary, Martin Brown

    Paperback (Scholastic, March 1, 2011)
    From gangs of gangsters to maniacs who massacre, readers can meet the biggest baddies in history and discover how they tortured ad terrified their way to the top. History has never been so horrible!
  • Dublin

    Terry Deary, Martin C. Brown

    Paperback (Scholastic, Feb. 20, 2006)
    Terry Deary reveals the horrible history of the great Irish city, from the blood-dripping battle of Clontarf to the risings and rebellions of the twentieth century. Find out why the mayor of Dublin put his Mum in prison and which Irish King led his men to battle ...from his bath. This title comes complete with a frightful fold-out map.
  • Shadow of the Gallows: A Vile Victorian Adventure

    Terry Deary

    Paperback (Scholastic, )
    When a boy called Bairn is rescued from his dangerous job as an Edinburgh chimney sweep, he appears to have landed on his feet. But his new job proves just as dangerous and he soon becomes caught up in a plot to kill Queen Victoria. Has he been saved from slavery only to end up swinging at the gallows? Find out in this Vile Victorian adventure, it's got all the gore and so much more.
  • Vicious Vikings Sticker Book

    Terry Deary, Martin Brown

    Paperback (Scholastic, Nov. 19, 2004)
    History with the nasty bits left in The Vicious Vikings Sticker Book is crammed full of putrid picture puzzles and wicked word games to bring all those vile invaders and gruesome gods to life. Want to: * stage a vicious Viking fight and decide who wins? * make a successful sacrifice to the gods? * become a victorious Viking invader - over and over again? Get stuck in to Terry Deary's foul facts and Martin Brown's crafty cartoons - with over 100 re-useable stickers you're sure to find the Vicious Vikings forever a-peeling History has never been so horrible
  • Horrible Jobs in Colonial Times

    Louise Spilsbury

    Paperback (Gareth Stevens Classroom, Jan. 1, 2014)
    Presents several of the most dangerous, dirty, and otherwise unpleasant jobs done in colonial America, including indentured servants, field workers, tanners, pitch makers, whalers, and hatters.
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  • Horrible Jobs in Medieval Times

    Robyn Hardyman

    Paperback (Gareth Stevens Classroom, Jan. 1, 2014)
    Presents several of the most dangerous, dirty, and otherwise unpleasant jobs done in medieval times, including peasant, bog iron collector, woad dyer, fuller, barber-surgeon, and plague doctor.
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