Sir Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders: World War II was the winner of Best Book with Facts in the 2014 Blue Peter Book Awards, voted for by children.

In this double serving of Weird World of Wonders books, Sir Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly and disgusting bits about World War I and World War II. It's history, but not as we know it!

Find out everything you need to know in this brilliant, action-packed, fact-filled book, including:

- How to build a trench
- Why dogs were such good messengers
- How plastic surgery was invented
- Why you needed a gas mask
- Just how useful mashed potato is
- How the Battle of Britain was won
- What it takes to be a spy
- How D-Day was kept a surprise

For more historic fun facts, discover Sir Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders: Greeks and Romans.

This book is part of a book series called Tony Robinson's Weird World Of Wonders .

There are 320 pages in this book. This book was published 2015 by Pan Macmillan .

Tony Robinson is best known as 'Baldrick' from the famous Blackadder series. On top of his acting credentials, Tony is also a successful TV presenter and is currently presenting Channel 4's Time Team. He has also written several children's non fiction books, notably for Hodder, and lives in west London.