Military Misdemeanours
Corruption, incompetence, lust and downright stupidity
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About this book
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 coloured military history across the centuries.
Contents
An Introduction… Of Sorts · The Prologue: 'Iniquity in Antiquity' · ACT I: 'Our Inglorious Past' · ACT II: 'Manifest Infamy' · ACT III: 'Not Such a Great War' ACT IV: 'Cold War Fallout' · ACT V: 'Even in our Enlightened Times?' · Afterword · Endnotes
Hardback; September 2007; 320 pages; ISBN: 9781846031489