Before & Laughter: The funniest man in the UK’s genuinely useful guide to life

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This isn't your bog-standard history book. The questions will have the whole family, whether 6 or 106, debating on car journeys and train journeys, or stuck in on wet days during the school holidays, and will keep you entertained around the table at Christmas lunch (or when you're falling asleep after Christmas lunch. Al knows his way around 20th century Britain, and he's good enough to illuminate it for you. Format: HardbackISBN: 9781529413076Publish/Release date: September 30, 2021Publisher: Quercus PublishingNumber of pages: 368Width (mm): 162Height (mm): 238Depth (mm): 34 is packed with hundreds of the biggest questions to face us all, including: Format: Paperback / softbackISBN: 9781529413083Publish/Release date: September 30, 2021Publisher: Quercus PublishingNumber of pages: 368Width (mm): 152Height (mm): 232Depth (mm): 30 A few obvious lessons include: megalomaniac men with moustaches in charge of countries tend to turn out to be BAD; anyone who thinks they can explain let alone sort out the Middle East is WRONG; France simply cannot be relied upon; America may or may not be the cause of everything GOOD and BAD in the world (depending on who you ask). From the Big Bang of the 20th Century, DOUBLEYOUDOUBLEYOU ONE, to the eve of the new Millennium (when all the computers in the World DIDN'T stop working and the Queen had to do the Hokey Cokey with Tony Blair) and all the forgotten tales in between, this is a brilliantly funny, irreverent and eye-opening whistle-stop tour of Britain since 1914. In fact, when you look at how much went on in the 20th century, it's amazing it didn't take longer than that. An hilarious gallop through 20th Century Britain