Amazon UK Customer Book Reviews
Ever heard of Borat? He's from your country...., 25 Mar 2007
Reviewer: R. Alatee "Rob" (Encino, CA) - See all my reviews
This is satire at its best--a truly hilarous parody in the vein of Swift's MODEST PROPOSAL and BORAT. A visit to evilempirebook.com will give you the truest sense of its brilliance. England, you've been duped! Read it and weep--with laughter.
Nonsense, 20 Mar 2007
Reviewer: The man who would be king (UK) - See all my reviews
This book is, as the synopsis says, "essential reading for true-blue Americans and others oppressed by the English throughout history." But it is not for anyone who wants an accurate appraisal of the British Empire. Despite the fact that the English can't be blamed for or take credit for, everything the British Empire was responsible for (it was the British Empire), many of the examples of England's "Evil Empire" are plainly wrong.
The Spanish used concentration camps in 1898 in the Spanish-American war before the British did in the Second Boer War, the Metric System was French, the modern machine gun an American invention (the Gatling and Maxim guns), and somehow slums and child labour were invented by the English. Moreover, such sweeping statements as the English slaughtered Africans with machine guns, and England benefitted from slavery and supported the Confederacy (although they switched support to the Union) seems to imply that we're a people of mass murdering racists. He neglects to mention that although the English did benefit from slavery (they weren't the only ones) they did more than any other nation to eradicate it.
Then this isn't supposed to be at all accurate. It suffers from being a response to the English appartently blaming all life's ills on the Americans. This is history akin to Gallipoli, Braveheart and The Patriot.
The urbanity born of pure indifference, 5 Mar 2007
Reviewer: A. Woodcock-clarke "Academic Journalist" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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I am an Englishman and approached this book with the same emotion that all English people approach all American humour - with the urbanity of born of pure indifference.
The articles it contains, one by one, are sophomoric in their scope and detail but, hell, so is the American Pie franchise so beloved of US audiences. If you like that, you'll like this. What a comment on George Bush's America, eh?
But the name. Grasse... Grasse... Why did it ring such a bell with me? And why would such a person with such a name take such a dislike to the British who have done nothing more than give him the language with which he speaks and the economic, cultural, political, artistic, strategic and sexual systems within which he operates? Then it struck me. Grasse is a descendant of François Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasse Tilly, comte de Grasse. Americans will know him as the French admiral who assisted George Washington during the War of Independence. British readers will know him, of course, as the Frenchman who betrayed the bold American colonialists by withdrawing his ships at a time crucial to their struggle so that he could go and loot for his own personal benefit the rich shipping lanes of the West Indies - and was soundly trounced by a much smaller squadron of Royal Naval ships under the command of Admiral Hood at the Battle of the Saints. Beaten like a gong, believe me.
So of course Grasse hates the British. He is, after all, a scion of one of the most consistently destructive nations that history has ever known. France. The common enemy of all the world.
If you wish to know more, may I recommend that you read a far more fascinating (and much funnier) book '50 Reasons To Hate The French' (2006) by Jules Eden and Alex Clarke. You can find it on Amazon.
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