Tonight he chokes on the words feminism and diversity, and rails against young people with hair-trigger offence-taking mechanisms (with that last one it seems as if Murray is talking, rather than Pub Landlord).

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And it’s written with plenty of scholarship and insight, but totally readable, as he’s a stand up comedian too. In addition, the character has ghost written four books: The Pub Landlord's Book of British Common Sense, The Pub Landlord's Think Yourself British, The Pub Landlord's Great British Quiz Book and Let's Re-Great Britain.Command is billed as the author’s first book without jokes and while that is true, there is plenty of his trademark wit and humour throughout. Having started out by touring with comedians such as Harry Hill and Frank Skinner, Murray won the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1999, after being nominated in 1996, 1997 and 1998. With his trademark combination of humour and deep-thinking - an iron fist in a velvet glove - Al Murray's brilliantly incisive debut history forces us to think again about the nature of Command and how the Allies were able to turn disaster into triumph in World War II.

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The character has a great love of the British 1970s rock band Queen, often getting musician(s) on his show to perform one of Queen's tunes in their own style. A descendant of the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, [4] [5] his grandfather was the former British ambassador Sir Ralph Murray, [6] from the Scottish aristocracy and married into the Kuenberg family, Imperial Counts [ citation needed] of the Holy Roman Empire. There is tendency among some military historians to fetishise the German army and this book is a good cure for that. Al Murray is one of the most successful comics in the UK with his alter-ego The Pub Landlord and has had four previous bestselling books, The Pub Landlord's Book of British Common Sense, The Pub Landlord Says Think Yourself British, Great British Pub Quiz Book and Watching War Films with my Dad. p>

The data controller is Headline Publishing Group Limited.It's not just Nigel Farage: Al Murray the Pub Landlord loses South Thanet bid despite patriotic pledges". White wasn’t a General but a Second Lieutenant, a man on the ground demonstrating great leadership and dealing with ‘command’ when it is thrust his way. Command highlights the performance and careers of some of the leading protagonists who commanded armies, as well as the lesser-known officers who led divisions, regiments and even battalions for the British, Commonwealth and United States of American armies.