Terry Deary

Martin Brown

The Vicious Vikings

Gavin

I think these were the only history books I read until I was 20 years old. It sufficed!

Obviously it's not good for your only exposure to history to be the 100 most dramatic moments, the 100 most elite and unrepresentative people. (For each page of a regular history book I should imagine the lives of a thousand peasants.) But very few people have any grasp of history beyond this superficial roll call, so it didn't hurt me much to delay it.

Our need for "people's history" is great: it at least has a chance of being an accurate picture of the past. (Many particular instances of people's history are fatally false or misleading though, because the contrarianism and ideological heat of the topic draws parasites and shills.)

Kirsten Simkiss

You know, I didn't find this one as amusing and informative as the others. I feel like 3 stars is fair.

As usual, I enjoyed the fun illustrations and the funny takes on the history in a way that would be fun for those who don't enjoy history, but it was surprisingly not very linear. It skipped around a lot, making the history a jumble of events in my head. It was still fun to read, but definitely not so structured.

Zoe Smolen

Such a fun take on history! Definitely written for a younger age group, but it was still enjoyable as an adult!

L A-T

TREEY DEARY

Sail back to a vicious time with fearsome seafaring Viking warriors with big boats, big shields and enormous ginger beards. Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Vicious Vikings, including Viking Gods in wedding dresses, corpses on trial and Death by booby-trapped statues. History with the nasty bits left in! 2013 is HORRIBLE HISTORIES twentieth anniversary.

The Vicious Vikings

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