A laugh-out-loud humour book in the vein of the bestselling Darwin Awards and Stephen Pile's The Book of Heroic Failures, collecting together stupid stories of real-life cock-ups.
Herewith a handful of sample entries to tickle your funny bones...
In the 1824 war between Britain and Ashanti (now part of Ghana), the British Redcoats found themselves surrounded by 10,000 fierce Ashanti warriors, and running very low on ammunition. Their commander ordered Charles Brandon, the army's stores manager, to break open the reserve ammunition he'd ordered. As the Ashanti...