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    All the Countries We've Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To

    By Stuart Laycock

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    Out of 193 countries that are currently UN member states, we’ve invaded or fought conflicts in the territory of 171. That’s not far off a massive, jaw-dropping 90 per cent. Not too many Britons know that we invaded Iran in the Second World War with the Soviets. You can be fairly sure a lot more Iranians do. Or what about the time we arrived with elephants to invade Ethiopia? Every summer, hordes of British tourists now occupy Corfu and the other Ionian islands. Find out how we first invaded them armed with cannon instead of camera and set up the United States of the Ionian Islands. Think the Philippines have always been outside our zone of influence? Think again. Read the surprising story of our eighteenth-century occupation of Manila and how we demanded a ransom of millions of dollars for the city. This book takes a look at some of the truly awe-inspiring ways our country has been a force, for good and for bad, right across the world. A lot of people are vaguely aware that a quarter of the globe was once pink, but that’s not even half the story. We’re a stroppy, dynamic, irrepressible nation and this is how we changed the world, often when it didn’t ask to be changed!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe History Press
    Release dateFeb 29, 2012
    ISBN9780752483351
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    Stuart Laycock

    Stuart Laycock studied Classics at Cambridge, before working as a writer in advertising. He is now a historian and writer, and is the author of THP's All the Countries We've Ever Invaded.

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    • 4/5
      The book I intended to write (but never got round to), revealing the overwhelming number of countries, 171 or 193 UN member states, where British forces have been in action. The tone is sometimes gratingly (trying to be) comic, but over the piece reveals the wide nature of British intervention and often conquest.
    • 3/5
      Hopefully tongue-in-cheek look at Britain's colonial and military past, and its interactions and impact wherever the action. Useful history, but it's pretty jingoistic and a little jarring given the timing (Brexit, and right-wing populism and resurgent nationalism). That said, I learned an inordinate amount about Britain's global footprint, and I consider myself very well read about Britain's colonial history. Thanks to Stuart Laycock for a book that must have been a gigantic research undertaking given the material covered in incredible detail.
    • 4/5
      The flippant tone of this book works against it at times, but it's a useful survey of British empire building and other military activity.