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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.
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.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2019 |
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Genre: | Importe, Politikwissenschaften |
Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | 960 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9780140285321 |
ISBN-10: | 0140285326 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Herstellernummer: | 30685 |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Andrew, Christopher |
Hersteller: |
Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Penguin |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestraße 122 a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com |
Maße: | 195 x 128 x 50 mm |
Von/Mit: | Christopher Andrew |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 04.07.2019 |
Gewicht: | 0,696 kg |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2019 |
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Genre: | Importe, Politikwissenschaften |
Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | 960 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9780140285321 |
ISBN-10: | 0140285326 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Herstellernummer: | 30685 |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Andrew, Christopher |
Hersteller: |
Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Penguin |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestraße 122 a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com |
Maße: | 195 x 128 x 50 mm |
Von/Mit: | Christopher Andrew |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 04.07.2019 |
Gewicht: | 0,696 kg |