True or false?
Ancient Greek armies were square
Elephants were excellent warriors
Maori warriors danced on the battlefield
Hitler wanted to blow up the Eiffel Tower

Explore the facts behind some of the most famous conflicts in history, blow the myths and legends wide open, and uncover loads of mind-blowing and downright bizarre stuff about battles through the ages...

The Truth or Busted series explores the fact or fiction behind stuff you THINK you know in a tongue-in-cheek, humorous way that kids will find unputdownable!

This book is part of a book series called Truth Or Busted .

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2015 by Hachette Children's Group .

Kay Barnham is an experienced editor and author of numerous books for children

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: Soldiers who survived the Crimean battlefield were safe and sound in Florence Nightingale's hospital
• 2: Battle Blunders - Lord Byron
• 3: Bombs don't bounce
• 4: Two countries once went to war over a golden stool
• 5: The Light Brigade was a bunch of soldiers carrying torches
• 6: Weird Wars - The Football War
• 7: World War One tanks were names after water tanks
• 8: World War One made soldiers' feet go rotten
• 9: If you wanted to escape from Stalag Luft III, you needed a wooden horse
• 10: The shortest war was over in just 38 minutes
• 11: During civil wars everyone fights in a terribly polite way
• 12: They invented WHAT? The military multicycle
• 13: During World War One, lions were led into battles by donkeys
• 14: In the Middle Ages, besieged castles were attacked with rotting animals
• 15: Geronimo is just a word that army paratroopers shout to show they're not scared.
• 16: Weird Wars - The Pastry War
• 17: Elephants are excellent warriors
• 18: The Greeks used magic spells to set boats on fire
• 19: A war was once lost because of a missing horseshoe nail
• 20: They invented WHAT? The helmet gun