The Beastly Battles Of Old England
The misguided manoeuvres of the British at war| By: | Nigel Cawthorne |
| Publisher: | Hachette |
| Print ISBN: | 9780748120611 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780748120611 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.