The Beastly Battles Of Old England : The misguided manoeuvres of the British at war EPUB
by 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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- Pages:288 pages, Integrated: 20, b/w line drawings throughout
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:06/10/2011
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- ISBN:9780748120611
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:288 pages, Integrated: 20, b/w line drawings throughout
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:06/10/2011
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- ISBN:9780748120611