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    Dreadfully Deadly History: A Mega Mix of Death, Disease and Destruction

    By Clive Gifford and Andrew Pinder

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    Take a gruesome trip through time with this grisly compendium of death! From the best ways to test a witch, to making a mummy in eight simple steps, and with fascinating facts about botched beheadings, greedy royals and the plague, Dreadfully Deadly History looks at the most gruesome facts from the past.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael O'Mara
    Release dateSep 6, 2012
    ISBN9781780551272
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    Dreadfully Deadly History: A Mega Mix of Death, Disease and Destruction
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    Clive Gifford

    Clive Gifford is an award-winning author of books for children and adults who has had over 170 books published, including the astonishing Dead or Alive, the creepy Book of Bad Things and the brain mangling Think Again and Eye Benders. He is passionate that books should entertain, inform and amaze whenever possible. His books Cool Technology and Think Again! both won the School Library Association's Information Book Award.

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