Badass: A Relentless Onslaught of the Toughest Warlords, Vikings, Samurai, Pirates, Gunfighters, and Military Commanders to Ever Live (Badass Series)

> An unstoppable collection of the most hardcore figures who ever strapped on chain mail and ran screaming into battle > > Throughout history—from the bone-crushing age of antiquity to the sack-tearing modern era—there have been larger-than-life ass-kickers with a natural talent for unleashing their epic bloodlust on anyone who crossed them. They built empires, smashed armies, and ravaged civilizations for wealth, glory, and ultimate supremacy. Sometimes villains, sometimes heroes, sometimes criminally insane, they had one thing in common: They were all . . . Badass! Chandragupta Maurya An Indian warlord who commanded an army of drunken war elephants and employed an elite detachment of highly trained female bodyguards Peter Francisco An unsung hero of the American Revolution, this powerful giant battled the British with a massive five-foot-long broadsword Wolf the Quarrelsome A mysterious barbarian leader who only appears in history twice—and both times he’s kicking someone’s ass Bhanbhagta Gurung A fearless Gurkha who won the Victoria Cross by clearing out six Japanese foxholes with nothing more than grenades, a bayonet, and a knife From Alexander the Great to George S. Patton, from Genghis Khan to Bruce Lee, this pantheon of ass-kicking awesomeness should inspire you to quit your stupid job and dive headfirst into a new career as a professional badass. An unstoppable collection of the most hardcore figures who ever strapped on chain mail and ran screaming into battle Throughout history—from the bone-crushing age of antiquity to the sack-tearing modern era—there have been larger-than-life ass-kickers with a natural talent for unleashing their epic bloodlust on anyone who crossed them. They built empires, smashed armies, and ravaged civilizations for wealth, glory, and ultimate supremacy. Sometimes villains, sometimes heroes, sometimes criminally insane, they had one thing in common: They were all . . . Badass! Chandragupta Maurya An Indian warlord who commanded an army of drunken war elephants and employed an elite detachment of highly trained female bodyguards Peter Francisco An unsung hero of the American Revolution, this powerful giant battled the British with a massive five-foot-long broadsword Wolf the Quarrelsome A mysterious barbarian leader who only appears in history twice—and both times he’s kicking someone’s ass Bhanbhagta Gurung A fearless Gurkha who won the Victoria Cross by clearing out six Japanese foxholes with nothing more than grenades, a bayonet, and a knife From Alexander the Great to George S. Patton, from Genghis Khan to Bruce Lee, this pantheon of ass-kicking awesomeness should inspire you to quit your stupid job and dive headfirst into a new career as a professional badass.

A Humorous Collection Of History's Most Crushingly Awesome Figures To Ever Strap On A Pair Of Chainmail Gauntlets And Run Screaming Into Battle, Includes Ramses Ii, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, And George S. Patton. Ramses Ii -- Leonidas -- Xenophon -- Alexander The Great -- Liu Ji -- Gaius Julius Ceasar -- The Surena -- Julia Agrippina -- Alaric The Bold -- Khalid Bin Walid -- Justinian Ii -- Charles Martel -- Wolf The Quarrelsome -- William The Conqueror -- Harald Hardrada -- El Cid Compeador -- Tomoe Gozen -- Genghis Khan -- Vlad The Impaler -- Miyamoto Musashi -- Peter The Great -- Blackbeard -- Anne Bonny -- Peter Francisco -- Horatio Nelson -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- Agustina Of Aragon -- Bass Reeves -- Nikola Tesla -- Manfred Von Richthofen -- Henry Lincoln Johnson -- Eliot Ness -- Jack Churchill -- Irina Sebrova -- Bhanbhagta Gurung -- George S. Patton -- Chrarles Hathcock -- Bruce Lee -- Jonathan Netanyahu. Ben Thompson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [323]-332). The badasses populating the pages of Badass are the most savagely awesome historical figures to ever strap on a pair of chain mail gauntlets and run screaming into battle. Author Ben Thompson—considered by many to be the Internet’s foremost expert on badassitude—has gathered together a rogues’ gallery of butt-stomping rogues, from Julius Caesar and Genghis Khan to Blackbeard, George S. Patton, and Bruce Lee. Their bone-breaking exploits are illustrated by top artist from the fields of gaming, comics, and cards—DC Comics illustrator Matt Haley and Thomas Denmark, illustrator for the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering. This is not your boring high school history—this is tough, manly, unrelentingly Badass! Throughout history, from the bone-crushing age of antiquity to the sack-tearing modern era, there have been larger-than-life ass-kickers with a natural talent for unleashing their epic bloodlust on anyone who crossed them. They built empires, smashed armies, and ravaged civilizations for wealth, glory, and ultimate supremacy. Sometimes villains, sometimes heroes, sometimes criminally insane, they had one thing in common: they were all ... Badass! Chronicles the asskicking age of antiquity to the fearless modern era in chapters that include the stories of: Ramses II - the greatest of the Egyptian Pharaohs; Alexander the Great - Macedonian King who conquered the entire known world before his 33rd birthday; and, Blackbeard - the most feared cutthroat to ever sail the Caribbean.