Military Mayhem: 2,500 Years of Soldierly Sleaze and Scandal

by Terry Crowdy

Bungled cover-ups, acts of blinding incompetence, miscarriages of justice, sexual escapades, and downright stupidity - scandals 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.

Genres: Military Fiction

320 pages, Paperback

First published September 21, 2010

About the author

Terry Crowdy was born in London in 1970. Initially a re-enactor, his interest in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars led to writing for specialist magazines, and then to book authorship.

Reviews

[Antipoet · Rating 1 out of 5]

author gets basic facts wrong (says Gettysburg lasted from July 1-4) and repeats lies to add to the sense of scandal (parrots claims about "brainwashing" being an actual thing during the Korean War).

read if you've nothing else on hand?