Our latest newsletter listed a selection of this March’s notable and interesting titles. Among them, we can highlight "1066 and All That" by Walter Carruthers Sellar and Robert Julian Yeatman.
It's a is a comic parody of English history, mocking how schoolchildren misremember facts. It reduces centuries of events to "Good Things," "Bad Things," and memorably mangled kings, battles, and causes — hilariously unreliable by design.
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@gutenberg_org Like any really good parody it contains uncomfortable albeit satirical statements.
. My favourite one is ' War with Zulus. Zulus Exterminated. Peace with Zulus'