The Beastly Battles of Old England
Cawthorne, Nigel
| Autor: | Cawthorne, Nigel |
|---|---|
| Themengebiete: | History - General History |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 23.04.2019 |
| EAN: | 9780749953942 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 288 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Untertitel: | The Misguided Manoeuvres of the British at War |
Produktinformationen "The Beastly Battles of Old England"
Throughout history the English have been a warlike lot. Often we fight among ourselves - there have been a good few civil wares - and when we were not slaughtering each other, we practised 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. · Do you know which crazy field marshal told the Duke of Wellington that he had been made pregnant with an elephant by a French grenadier?· Or which cowardly general hid behind a tree when his troops walked straight into a Spanish ambush?· Or which regiment drank 7217 gallons of liquor between them?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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