The Beastly Battles Of Old England : The Misguided Manoeuvres Of The British At War

Nigel Cawthorne
The Beastly Battles Of Old England : The Misguided Manoeuvres Of The British At War
The Beastly Battles Of Old England : The Misguided Manoeuvres Of The British At War

The Beastly Battles Of Old England : The Misguided Manoeuvres Of The British At War
ISBN: 9780749953942
Publication Date: 11 September 2018

An entertaining trawl through the darker side of English military history.

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.

About the Author

Nigel Cawthorne is the author of a number of successful true crime and popular history books. His writing has appeared in over 150 newspapers, magazines and partworks - from the

Sun to the

Financial Times, and from

Flatbush Life to

The New York Tribune. He lives in London.