The Beastly Battles Of Old England The Misguided Manoeuvres Of The British At War

Author: Nigel Cawthorne

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Price : $15.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780749953942
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Imprint : Piatkus Books
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Publication date : 01 September 2018
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Author : Nigel Cawthorne
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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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