<b>True stories of extraordinary deaths throughout history to the modern day from the host of the popular <i>Half-Arsed History</i> podcast.</b><br/><br/><i>History's Strangest Deaths</i>, the debut book from Riley Knight, host of the popular podcast <i>Half-Arsed History</i>, highlights the many and varied ways that people have met their end over the years, from the foolish to the absurd.<br/><br/>From a classical Greek playwright killed by a tortoise dropping out of the sky to an ancient Chinese duke falling into a toilet; from a Viking raider bitten by a severed head to a lawyer shooting himself to prove a legal point; from two French kings killed by door frames to two British parliamentarians who were killed by turnips-there are countless amusing, farcical, absurd, and ultimately very strange deaths from across history. <i>History's Strangest Deaths</i> offers fifty of the best of them, spanning thousands of years of history to recent times.<br/><br/>Many people are supremely unimaginative in death, embracing the tired old cliché of dying peacefully in their sleep surrounded by loved ones. <i>History's Strangest Deaths</i> has tracked down those select few who have instead made their mark in the history books by exiting this world in thrillingly unconventional ways.