Loose Cannons by 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 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?
Graeme Donald has been researching the origins of words, nursery rhymes, superstitions and popular misconceptions for many years and has published nine previous books, most recently Fighting Talk and Sticklers, Sideburns and Bikinis for Osprey Publishing. He wrote a daily column for Today newspaper for the ten years of its publication and has also written for the Mirror and The Age in Melbourne.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781846033773 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846033772 |
| Title | Loose Cannons |
| Author | Graeme Donald |
| Series | General Military Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2009-10-10 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |