Stuart Laycock is a British historian and author best known for the popular-history book ''All the Countries We've Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To''. He has also written extensively on

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and post-Roman

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''All the Countries We've Ever Invaded''

''All the Countries We've Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To'' (2012) attempts to catalogue every country Britain has ever invaded or made an incursion into, whether they were part of the

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or suffered a briefer attack, were threatened, or forced to negotiate. Incursions by

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s, private explorers, etc, are also listed.Copping, Jasper
"British have invaded nine out of ten countries - so look out Luxembourg"
Daily Telegraph (London), 04 Nov 2012 The book was attacked by Marxist writer

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in the Guardian for allegedly trivialising the suffering caused by imperialism.Seymour, Richard
"The British have invaded 90% of the world's countries. Ha ha?"
The Guardian (London), 6 November 2012 Although the book states it is not pro or anti-empire and is exploring historical facts rather than making moral judgements, Seymour accused it of "moral ambivalence". Seymour also criticised it for elements such as including invasions long before the existence of Britain as a nation, but praised it for showing how British power went far beyond the overt machinery of empire to include economic and other forces. In his book, 90% of the world's countries have suffered a British invasion at some point in their history, with only 22 spared. France is the nearest rival to Britain's record with 80% of the world’s countries invaded by France with only 43 spared.

Other books

Laycock has also written books on late-Roman Britain: ''Britannia - The Failed State'' and ''Warlords: The Struggle for Power in Post-Roman Britain''. ''Warlords'' advances the theory that the Anglo-Saxon invasion of England was a takeover by a warrior elite. With

Miles Russell Miles Russell, (born 8 April 1967) is a British archaeologist best known for his work and publications on the prehistoric and Roman periods and for his appearances in television programmes such as ''Time Team'' and ''Harry Hill's TV Burp''. Per ...

, he wrote ''UnRoman Britain'', which claims that Britain was not significantly influenced by Roman occupation. Laycock's first book of poetry, ''Zone:Poems from the Bosnian War'',
Mica Press 2015 drew on his experiences as an aid worker.

References

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