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The Beastly Battles Of Old England: The misguided manoeuvres of the British at war
Nigel Cawthorne
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Description for The Beastly Battles Of Old England: The misguided manoeuvres of the British at war
Paperback. An entertaining trawl though the darker side of British military history Num Pages: 288 pages, b/w line drawings throughout. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780749953942
SKU
V9780749953942
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99-50
About Nigel Cawthorne
Nigel Cawthorne has been a writer for nearly 30 years, writing a number of successful popular history books; Nigel Cawthorne lives in London.
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