Cut Throat Celts
Horrible Histories (Original) Series
Author: Terry Deary
Illustrator: Martin Brown
Book 11 in the Horrible Histories (Original) series
Pages: 144
Published: 1997
Age: 8+
The cut-throat Celts may have been a riotous rabble armed with swords and spears, but they knew how to make the Roman army’s blood run cold! Discover the fearsome facts about the wild warriors who fought the Romans naked while collecting human heads! You’ll find out:
• Why weird Celt warriors fought with no clothes on
• How to preserve your enemy’s brain
• How to play gruesome Celtic games
• What the dreadful Druids did to their strange sacrifices
If that’s not nasty enough for you, you must be a cut-throat Celt yourself!
About the Horrible Histories (Original) Series
Books in series order
- 1.Awesome Egyptians(1993)
- 2.Terrible Tudors(1993)
- 3.Blitzed Brits(1994)
- 4.Vicious Vikings(1994)
- 5.Vile Victorians(1994)
- 6.Groovy Greeks(1996)
- 7.Measly Middle Ages(1996)
- 8.Slimy Stuarts(1996)
- 9.Angry Aztecs(1997)
- 10.Awful Egyptians(1997)
- 11.Cut Throat Celts(1997)
- 12.Frightful First World War(1998)
- 13.Gorgeous Georgians(1998)
- 14.Terrifying Tudors(1998)
- 15.Rotten Romans(1999)
- 16.Savage Stone Age(1999)
- 17.Woeful Second World War(1999)
- 18.Incredible Incas(2000)
- 19.Smashing Saxons(2000)
- 20.Stormin' Normans(2001)
- 21.Barmy British Empire(2002)
- 22.Ruthless Romans(2003)
- 23.Villianous Victorians(2004)
Reading age: 8+ years
Horrible Histories are history books with the guts left in! These illustrated accounts present the unusual, gory, and unpleasant facts of history with tongue-in-cheek humour guaranteed to appeal to children.