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Peter Chrisp


Born
May 20, 1958


Peter Chrisp is a British children's author of books on history. With over sixty books published, his various works include Blitzkrieg!, Dorling Kindersly's Ancient Egypt Revealed and Ancient Rome Revealed, The Spanish Conquests of the New World, and many more.

He first began writing history after working on the Mass-Observation archive at the University of Sussex. He has also worked as a writer on the online project "Icons of England".

Aside from his publications in literature, he is also an artist, who has exhibited collections of his cartoons and hand-drawn postcards during Brighton Festival. He is an inveterate theatre- and concert-goer, and during the Edinburgh Festival regularly views three shows a day. He collects original art works, a
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History Year by Year: The H...

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Shakespeare

3.94 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2002 — 24 editions
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Explore Titanic [with CD-ROM]

4.29 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions
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Ancient Egypt

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Chrisp's True Crime Miscellany

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World War II: Fighting for ...

3.95 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions
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Dinosaur Detectives (DK Rea...

3.86 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2001 — 13 editions
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The Victorian Age

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Ancient Rome

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Alexander the Great: The Le...

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