Product Description

It's history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: • who got cow pats as Christmas presents? • why wearing a pig on your head is lucky? • how to make a dead Saxon happy? Discover all the foul facts about the Smashing Saxons - all the gore and more!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13073 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Customer Reviews

This book was brilliant (but disgusting!)
This was one of my school books and I really enjoyed it. It tells you all the disgusting facts you need to know about the Saxon people and rulers (not the ones you use at school!). I enjoyed reading about all the gory facts and punishments, like cutting off hands and gouging out eyes! - thank goodness they don't rule now. I'd recommend this book to everyone except the Saxons!

MEET THE ANCESTORS
Blood guts, chaos and violence-i love it. Go and buy it as it teaches you the history of the early english in a very clear and fun way (not just for kids)Dont listen to modern society, the saxons werent just nasty invaders, they were the ancestors that created small kingdoms out of what was left of Roman Britain that became known as England (and it was named after the invading angles from Denmark (often called Saxons by the Britons) also spelled Engles,and England means 'Land of the Engles', get it?, were not really British, its a lie!!!. And the normans werent french they were descended from viking invaders from Denmark (the same place as the angles, so were all related really) Learn all about the Negative side of the saxon and norman invasions/settlement as well as some laws that make far more sense then our modern laws. Our government could learn how to run a country better from this book. To learn more Positively on our ancestors try 'A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons'.

'The Smashing Saxons tells you the terrible truth about the pillaging people who bashed the Brits ...'
but got nobbled by the Normans.....

No baked beans, no chocolate, no chips. Would you really liked to have lived in those days?
Like most other ages in horrible history a lot might depend on whether you were a rich noble or a pathetic peasant.....for example.....

History with the nasty bits left in!'

Read on for foul facts on cut-throat kings, disgusting diseases and ghastly graves.
Find out how to make like a monk with silent signals, be the judge in a Saxon criminal court, and solve 1000-year-old riddles.
History has never been so horrible!'

A witty, colourful cover opens to 128 pages, split over 14 chapters:-

Timeline
The Saxon start
Superstitious Saxons
Awesome Arthur
Naughty nuns and mischievous monks
Saxon skills
Awful Offa, Alf and Ath
Woeful for women
Saxon scoffers
Curious cures
Ethelred the Ready for Beddy
Saxon crime and punishment
Vile verse
Pester your parents

with an introduction and an epilogue.

Written with the typical Deary humour, in a variety of fonts, and superb illustrations/cartoons throughout, from Martin Brown.