A biting, controversial and hilarious polemic on the curious ways of the British armed forces by a brilliant young former Naval Officer. With a preface by Harold Evans (the legendary former editor of the Sunday Times) and a brand new afterword by the author, bringing the book right up to date.
Lewis Page began his military career as a reservist pilot in the Cambridge University Air Squadron and ended up in the Navy, where he became a mine clearance diver. After eight years at sea, mostly in very bad weather, he was put in charge of the Plymouth diving and bomb disposal team and trawled the British coastline from Swanage to Liverpool neutralizing 'improvised Explosive Devices' and searching for unexploded ordnance. As such, he is one of the few in the British forces to have actually seen and dealt with 'Weapons of Mass Destruction', although irritatingly these were of British manufacture. During a dull period in the navy he qualified as a commando. He resigned from the Service in 2004 and now lives in London.
He... writes with force and wit...Page's book deserves attention...
Offers a guide to the armed forces and their problems which anybody
who cares about them should read... Page does a splendid job of
sharpening axes.
*Sunday Telegraph*
'Lions, Donkeys and Dinosaurs is a Fast Food Nation for the armed
forces... It is very unlikely that anything this entertaining or
important will be written on military matters this year. It
deserves to be a bestseller, and perhaps it will be if red-faced
civil servants are sent out to buy up every copy before the public
can get their hands on it.'
*Independent*
'Devastating... In my own recent book on modern follies I suggested
that defence procurement policy was so corrupt...that only a
satirist could do it justice. Page is that satirst.'
*Daily Express*
It's very unlikely that anything this entertaining or important
will be written on military matters this year. It deserves to be a
bestseller
*Independent on Sunday*
Page writes with force and wit...I hope he soon gets the job he
deserves, as a defence correspondent in the national media. The MoD
and chiefs of staff might tremble in their boots about the
consequences, but that is as it should be. Page does a splendid
job
*Sunday Telegraph*
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