The Secret World

A History of Intelligence

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<p>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.</p><br><p>· 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?<br>· Or which cowardly general hid behind a tree when his troops walked straight into a Spanish ambush?<br>· Or which regiment drank 7217 gallons of liquor between them?</p><br><p>In <i>The Beastly Battles of Old England</i>, 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.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780140285321

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

195 x 128 x 50 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd (UK)