FOURTH EDITION - WITH FAR MORE EXTRAORDINARY STORIES TO TELL ” The war of Elephants and Chandeliers, the Pig War, the Football War, the War of the Stray Dog, the 38-minute War, The Pastry War.” The atom bomb cake, the bazooka Vespa scooter, the flying tank, the armoured quadricycle, the bat bombs.” The battleships that took on a hut, the house where history changed, the civilian aircraft that downed a warplane, the WWII planes that fought for the wrong side.” The day the Yanks bombed and sunk British ships (and got away with it - twice), the day the U.S. dropped four H-bombs on an ally.” The world's worst warship, the admirals who sunk their own ships, the ghost ships of the Arctic. The Russian battlefleet that shelled our trawlers, and our trawler that outwitted a German war battlefleet.” The heroic dogs, cats, bear, pigeons, crocodiles, penguins, reindeer and goats that joined our forces.” Submarines that attacked camels, cavalry and railways, and a railwayman who defeated a German sub.” The greatest hoax of all time, the biggest British war you've never heard of.” Crackpot colonels, insane inventors, the woman who built her own tank and drove it into battle, the mad Brit who fought the Nazis with a sword and longbow ... it's almost unbelievable. But it's all true.