Product Description

It's history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: · What the 'Fat King' did with food scraps and dead horses? · How sniffing your own pee could save your life in a gas attack? · Why a pair of old socks gave away top German secrets? Discover all the foul facts about the Frightful First World War - all the gore and more!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11207 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Customer Reviews

A Brilliant Way to Learn, and Retain, Historical Knowledge!
'We're in because we're in because we're in!'
'Dire details about fierce flies, loathsome lice, foul food and Dick, the plane-spotting chicken.'
An ace CD - Relive the terrors, and the triumphs of the First World War!
Approx 1 hour running time.
The usual Deary humour adds a bit of light to a difficult subject to be humorous about!

HOT OFF THE PRESS - JULY 20th 2007 - REPRINTED EDITION with a NEW COVER
`The Frightful First World War tells you all the horrors and hardships of the war that was meant to last for four months...but ground on for four grim years.'

The usual Deary humour flows through the 136 pages packed with facts, written in a variety of fonts and full of black and white illustrations and cartoons, from Martin Brown.

`Want to know how sniffing your own pee could save your life in the First World War?'

Read on!

Split into 5 chapters:-

1914 - The year of the first shot
1915 - The year of total war
1916 - The year of the Somme
1917 - The year of the mud
1918 - The year of exhaustion

with an introduction, a `Test Your Teacher' section
and an epilogue.

Read on for curious quizzes, rotten recipes, gruesome games and much more.
History has never been so horrible!'

`Why did the Great War start?
Lots of big, thick history books have been written to answer that question. But, to put it simply, by 1914 the countries of Europe had formed themselves into two big gangs.......like street gangs.
The gang called the `Central Powers' were led by the Germans and
the gang we call the `Allies' were led by the French and British.
The two gangs started collecting weapons, making threats and swapping insults, the way gangs do.
All it needed was for one gang member to throw the first stone and a huge punch-up would follow.....'
So exactly HOW did the First World War start?
It's never one of the gang leaders that starts the fight, is it?
It's always one of the scruffy little kids that hangs around the edge.
In this case the scruffy little kid was called Bosnia in the Allies' gang.....'

This book is great.
It puts all the facts in a way that is easy to understand, as well as being very interesting and extremely funny. Impossible to put down! Kim Barea, Gib