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The Secret World

By Christopher Andrew

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The Secret World

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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 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
960
Release Date:
2019-07-04
Publication Date:
2019-07-04
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0140285326
ISBN13:
9780140285321
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
696 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
195 cm
Thickness:
50 cm
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