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

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.

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.

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.