Madcap Military Mayhem: 200 years of the unbelievably bizarre, barmy, bungled, brave and bloody brilliant - Paperback

by Benedict Le Vay (Author)

FOURTH EDITION - WITH FAR MORE EXTRAORDINARY STORIES TO TELL > The war of Elephants and Chandeliers, the Pig War, the Football War, the War of the Stray Dog, the 38-minute War, The Pastry War. > The atom bomb cake, the bazooka Vespa scooter, the flying tank, the armoured quadricycle, the bat bombs. > The battleships that took on a hut, the house where history changed, the civilian aircraft that downed a warplane, the WWII planes that fought for the wrong side. > The day the Yanks bombed and sunk British ships (and got away with it - twice), the day the U.S. dropped four H-bombs on an ally. > The world's worst warship, the admirals who sunk their own ships, the ghost ships of the Arctic. The Russian battlefleet that shelled our trawlers, and our trawler that outwitted a German war battlefleet. > The heroic dogs, cats, bear, pigeons, crocodiles, penguins, reindeer and goats that joined our forces. > Submarines that attacked camels, cavalry and railways, and a railwayman who defeated a German sub. > The greatest hoax of all time, the biggest British war you've never heard of. > Crackpot colonels, insane inventors, the woman who built her own tank and drove it into battle, the mad Brit who fought the Nazis with a sword and longbow ... it's almost unbelievable. But it's all true.