title: The Smashing Saxons (Horrible Histories)
author:  Terry Deary 
description: "The Smashing Saxons" tells the terrible truth about the pillaging people who bashed the Brits but got nobbled by the Normans, including who got cow pats as Christmas presents or why wearing a pig on your head was lucky. Read on for foul facts on disgusting diseases and ghastly graves.
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  # Tales of War
  
  
  ### Lord Dunsany
  
  
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  The Prayer of the Men of Daleswood
  
  
  
  
  
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  The Road
  
  
  
  
  
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  An Imperial Monument
  
  
  
  
  
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  A Walk to the Trenches
  
  
  
  
  
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  A Walk in Picardy
  
  
  
  
  
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  What Happened on the Night of the Twenty-Seventh
  
  
  
  
  
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  Standing To
  
  
  
  
  
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  The Splendid Traveller
  
  
  
  
  
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  England
  
  
  
  
  
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  Shells
  
  
  
  
  
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  Two Degrees of Envy
  
  
  
  
  
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  The Master of No Man's Land
  
  
  
  
  
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  Weeds and Wire
  
  
  
  
  
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  Spring in England and Flanders
  
  
  
  
  
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  The Nightmare Countries
  
  
  
  
  
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  Spring and the Kaiser
  
  
  
  
  
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  Two Songs
  
  
  
  
  
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  The Punishment
  
  
  
  
  
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  The English Spirit
  
  
  
  
  
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  An Investigation Into the Causes and Origin of
  
  
  the War
  
  
  
  
  
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  Lost
  
  
  
  
  
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  The Last Mirage
  
  
  
  
  
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  A Famous Man
  
  
  
  
  
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  The Oases of Death
  
  
  
  
  
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  Anglo-Saxon Tyranny
  
  
  
  
  
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  Memories
  
  
  
  
  
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  The Movement
  
  
  
  
  
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  Nature's Cad
  
  
  
  
  
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  The Home of Herr Schnitzelh