All the Countries We've Ever Invaded [antikvár]

: someone asked you how many countries we've invaded over the ^centuries, what would you say? Forty? Fifty? Sixty? What if I told you that we've invaded, had some control over or fought conflicts in the territory of something like 171 out of 193 UN member states in the world today (and maybe more)? Because that's exactly what we've doH€ Jt may come as a shock, but it's true. Writing this book has chfemged the way I think about who we are as a nation, and in that a^out who I am. Maybe it will change the way you think 'aboi^l^op^^if too. This^oc^^prang from my son Fred asking me about countries I ^ th^ Wieiavaiinvaded. Once I started compiling in my mind a list of ; tHem for him,'!'found the list growing longer and longer. In fact, it o^t^&it éheí&are relatively few countries on the planet that lyen'tííí^a^ed átteast once, and there are quite a few countries )"u)r forées have yisited' on mS#%th^n one occasion, sometimes a ííü^é Occasion.' / \ - ' \f A lot: óf vagaely aware th|t a quarter of the globe was once colöuréítípÍ^.to' represent .Briti^|-held territories, but that's nóí even halí^ffie- story. Sometinies, because we're used to it, we forget quite liçiW "unique our story is'.IWhen you read how many times we'vj^irfvaded, for instance, CKina or Egypt or Russia, ask yöurself how jnany times Chinése ór Egyptian or Russian forces irrepressible nation, world, even, often, ken .it'd^n't ask tof Be changed. . : öbjeétiv^ut softíetii^'.tl^^estion of what con- stitu:fes : : an invasion can be4 little subiective;-:' '--:"' N' m