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  • Published: 2 May 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141351384
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 48
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The Tin-Pot Foreign General And the Old Iron Woman




Raymond Briggs's uncompromising and visceral take on the Falklands War, first published in 1984.

BANG! BANG! BANG! went the guns of the Tin-Pot Foreign GeneralBANG! BANG! BANG! went the guns of the Old Iron Woman
Raymond Briggs's visceral take on the Falklands War is uncompromising in its dark and moving satire of the build-up and aftermath of the conflict. This controversial book's infamous stars - General Leopoldo Galtieri and Margaret Thatcher - are depicted as robotic caricatures with a pointless blood lust.

Now available as an eBook for the first time.

  • Published: 2 May 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141351384
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 48
Categories:

About the author

Raymond Briggs

Raymond Briggs is one of the most successful picture book creators of our time. His books include classics, such as Father ChristmasThe Snowman, and Fungus the Bogeyman. Several of his books have been televised and When the Wind Blows has also been staged as theater. Briggs won the Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration twice and his book Ug was the winner of the Nestlé Smarties Silver Award. He lives in Sussex, England. 

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