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A pack of dangerous monsters

real-life commander of Easy Company as featured in Stephen E Ambrose's Band of Brothers

and combat experiences of the famous ANZAC infantry in the opening years of World War I

The usual explanation of the savagery lurking beneath our veneer of civilisation is too simplistic

Henry V as Warlord - Desmond Seward - Softcover paint And it is true thatThis biography presents a radical reassessment of Henry V as a brutal warmonger. In the course of the Hundred Years War, Henry V was the English figure most responsible for the mutual antipathy that existed between French and Anglo Saxon. His pursuit of dampnum, the art of attacking an opponent by making total war on civilians as well as soldiers, created tremendous distrust and enmity between the French and English, which survives unto this day. He