75 years on from the first publication of "1066 and All That", Craig Brown takes over where Sellars and Yeatman left off. With all the zest and exuberance of the original, "1966 and All That" takes us on a half-remembered journey of imperial decline, loss of mustaches, The Sewers Crisis...
Arctic explorer, survival expert and naturalist Freddy Spencer Chapman was trapped behind enemy lines when the Japanese overran Malaya in 1942. His response was to begin a commando campaign of such lethal effectiveness that the Japanese deployed an entire regiment against him, hunting for him as they did for no other. He was wounded, and racked by tropical disease. His companions were killed, or captured...