# The Beastly Battles Of Old England

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/nigel-cawthorne/the-beastly-battles-of-old-england/9780748120611

![The Beastly Battles Of Old England](https://quivercdn.com/covers/piatkus/nigel-cawthorne/the-beastly-battles-of-old-england_978-07-4812-061-1.jpg?v=2026-05-19%2009%3A33%3A05)

- Book: [The Beastly Battles Of Old England](https://www.bookquiver.com/nigel-cawthorne/the-beastly-battles-of-old-england) ([The Beastly Battles Of Old England.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nigel-cawthorne/the-beastly-battles-of-old-england.md))
- Authors: [Nigel Cawthorne](https://www.bookquiver.com/nigel-cawthorne)
- Publisher: piatkus
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-4812-061-1
- Published: 2011-10-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.