Beastly Battles of Old England - Nigel Cawthorne (Paperback)
The Misguided Manoeuvres of the British at War
Description
Product Details
- Barcode
- 9780749953942
- Department
- Books
- Released
- 23 Apr 2019
- Supply Source
- UK
Book
- Author
- Nigel Cawthorne
- Subtitle
- The Misguided Manoeuvres of the British at War
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Trafalgar Square
- Edition
- Digital original
- Language
- English
- Number of Pages
- 288
- Dimensions
- 203 x 127 x 18mm (190g)
Summary
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.
Non-Fiction
- General Subject
- History/World
- BISAC Subject 1
- History / Europe / Great Britain
- BISAC Subject 2
- History / Military / General
- BIC Classification 1
- British & Irish history
- BIC Classification 2
- Military history
- Dewey Classification
- 941