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.
| ISBN: | 9780749953942 |
| Publication date: | 6th September 2018 |
| Author: | Nigel Cawthorne |
| Publisher: | Piatkus Books an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Genres: |
Military history European history |