Rome
Subtitle: a high-speed history
By: Terry Deary ; illustrated by Dave Smith
Contributors: Smith, Dave
Series: Horrible histories; Horrible histories
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 93
ISBN-13: 9781407111780
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Cartoons and comics; Fiction 7+; Comic books, strips; History
Description: The long and complicated story of Ancient Rome is told as never before - without being long or complicated! Ten comic-strip capers deliver the dreadful details from that terrible and tyrannical era. Readers are taken on a blood soaked tour from Romulus and Remus to Caligula and Cassius. History has never been so speedy!
Table of contents: title: The first days of Rome; title: The battle of Allia; title: The slave war of Spartacus; title: The battle of Actium; title: Pompeii; title: Teuoburger Wald; title: The assassination of Tiberius; title: The great fire of Rome; title: The opening of the colosseum; title: The sack of Rome.