BEASTLY BATTLES OF OLD ENGLAND

Throughout history the English have been a warlike lot. Often they fought amongst themselves, or fought their neighbours, and when that got too easy they set off around the world to find new people to fight. Nigel Cawthorne takes us on a darkly humorous journey through some of England’s ill-advised military actions, from the war over a severed ear to a general seeking out his rival's mistresses to even the score - a miscellany of insufferable arrogance, reckless gallantry, stunning stupidity, massive misjudgements and general beastliness.