The beastly best bits from Horrible Histories books. Terry Deary and Martin Brown take the reader on a guided tour through the history of the world using their favourite bits of 20 years of 'Horrible Histories' books. And they promise to leave the gory bits in (and the boring bits out).

Introduction -- Awful Ancients -- Awesome Egyptians -- Ruthless Romans -- Groovy Greeks -- Cut-throat Celts -- Vicious Vikings -- Dreadful Dark Ages -- Nasty Normans -- Wicked Warriors -- Martin Brown's Beastly Best Bits -- Measly Middle Ages -- Awful for animals -- Ruthless Rulers -- Angry Aztecs -- Terrifying Tudors -- Excellent executioners -- Incredible Inca -- Super Shakespeare -- Slimy Stuarts -- Woeful Witches -- Rowdy Revolutions -- Suffering Slavery -- Gorgeous Georgians -- Foul France -- Putrid Pirates -- Useless USA -- Industrial Revolution regrets -- Villainous Victorians -- Ireful Irish -- Barmy British Empire -- Woeful First World War -- Terrible Twenties -- Spies of World War 2 -- Blitzed Brits -- Epilogue.