Great British Losers

Great British Losers
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Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : 1905847564
ISBN-13 : 9781905847563
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Book Synopsis Great British Losers by : Gordon Kerr

Download or read book Great British Losers written by Gordon Kerr and published by . This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain is a nation obsessed with runners-up and near misses: the national psyche also considers failure to be heroic and success insipid, if not downright rude. In this book Gordon Kerr has assembled a veritable menagerie of British bunglers from every conceivable walk of loserdom, covering everyone from Caractacus to Lewis Hamilton.


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