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Loose Cannons: 101 Myths, Mishaps and Misadventurers of Military History

By Graeme Donald

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year
2011
ISBN
9781849086516, 9781846033773
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
852 kB (872065 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-10-03 02:06:48
HIS027100HistoryMilitaryNonfiction

Description

Who tried to bomb Japan with bats? Who invented the air-gun in 250BC? Which stories should we believe? The so-called Dambusters raid was all but ineffective; the Hurricane not the Spitfire was the champion of the Battle of Britain; Singapore did not fall because all the guns were pointing the wrong way' and who would go to war over a game of football, a pig, or an old bucket? Oppenheimer fluffed his lines after the first atomic test; virtually every well-known quote attributed the Duke of Wellington is wrong; Churchill had a BBC voice impersonator record all his famous WW2 speeches as he was invariably too busy or too 'tired and emotional' to do it himself and no-one at the time called WW1 'The War to end all Wars'. Will you believe the truth?

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