Loose Cannons
101 Myths, Mishaps and Misadventurers of Military History
Book: £9.99 GBP
General Military
Author: Graeme Donald
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 WWII speeches as he was invariably too busy or too 'tired and emotional' to do it himself, and no-one at the time called WWI 'The War to end all Wars'. Will you believe the truth?
Hardback; October 2009; 320 pages; ISBN: 9781846033773