The author of childrens series Horrible Histories presents the first book in his new offbeat popular history series for adults—Bill Bryson meets Blackadder With his trademark crisp, wry writing style and dark sense of humor, Terry Deary begins with the Roman Empire, in the first in a new series offering concise, informative histories that delve into myths and traditions surrounding its subjects and attempts to extract cohesion—and possibly even some truth. The Romans have long been held up as one of the first civilized societies, and yet in fact they were capable of immense cruelty. Not only that, but they made the killing of humans into a sport. The spoiled emperors were the perpetrators and sometimes the victims of some imaginative murders. This book includes some of the violent ways to visit the Elysian Fields i.
