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Military Misdemeanors - Corruption, Incompetence, Lust, and Downright Stupidity

By: Osprey

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: General Military - Assorted

Last Stocked on 9/14/2020

Product Info

Title
Military Misdemeanors - Corruption, Incompetence, Lust, and Downright Stupidity
Publisher
Category
Author
Terry Crowdy
Publish Year
2007
Pages
320
Dimensions
5x7.5x1"
NKG Part #
2147399120
MFG. Part #
OSPGM1489
Type
Hardcover

Description

Bungled cover-ups, acts of blinding incompetence, miscarriages of justice, sexual escapades, and downright stupidity - scandals which have helped to make the world's armed forces the much loved institutions they are today. Take an irreverent look at the public outcries that both governments and soldiers would rather we forgot. From Julius Caesar's sex life and the frolics of Charles d'Eon, the fearless dragoon and noted transvestite to the sinking of the Kursk, Terry Crowdy delves into the darker reaches of military personality defects, vice and slip-ups. Packed with more than 70 mishaps, step back in time and see how corruption, bigotry, lust, vanity, incompetence and the occasional bout of insanity have colored military history across the centuries.