The Beastly Battles of Old England - The Misguided Manoeuvres of the British at War
Author(s): Nigel Cawthorne
Throughout history the English have been a warlike lot. Often we fight among ourselves - there have been a good few civil wars - and when we were not slaughtering each other, we practiced on our neighbours, the Scots, the Irish, the French . . . When that got too easy, we set off around the world to find other people to fight. This was usually done with a hubris that invited some ludicrous pratfall.
In THE BEASTLY BATTLES OF OLD ENGLAND, Nigel Cawthorne takes us on a darkly humorous journey through some of our ill-advised military actions. From the war over a severed ear to a general seeking out his rival's mistresses to even the score, it is a miscellany of insufferable arrogance, reckless gallantry, stunning stupidity, massive misjudgements and general beastliness.
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- : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- : Piatkus Books
- : 0.19
- : 01 September 2018
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Special Fields
- : Nigel Cawthorne
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : English
- : 355.00941
- : 288