...but it gives me to wonder what might be the original source.  This thing looks a lot like the finest snotty National Lampoon stuff of the '70s, the kind of items that appeared in the first few years of the magazine's publication.  

 

Spot-on "Bedtime-stories-from-the-Dark-Side" parody. 

What else is in this lost guide to the sort of sick and evil historical perspective we should be maintaining on StrategyPage.com? 

There's actually quite a lot in that book with a military history theme, including:

 

- A recruiting brochure for the crusades, set out to make them look like a 'Club Med'-style resort vacation.

 

- Regimental traditions of some of Britain's less well-known regiments, including The Royal Brown Trousers and The Queen's Own Amoebas.

 

- The cabaret acts of Hitler and other leading Nazis.

 

- Lost propaganda of WWII, including the Third Reich Dairy Assortment chocolate boxes dropped on England by the Luftwaffe.

 

- The nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, reported by London's Sun newspaper (PHEW!  WHAT A SCORCHER!).

 

- NASA memos disciplining a Dr Strangelove-style Werner Von Braun for his Nazi views.

 

- ATTENTION DOGFACE, the instructional comic put out by the US Army to help returning soldiers re-integrate into society (really only funny if you buy into the myth that US soldiers in Vietnam were insane, ear-collecting babykillers).

 

 

By the way, what's missing from the above scan of Peter Rabbit, Tank Killer is a memo from Sven Hassel's literary agent suggesting him for the job of reviving Beatrix Potter's characters.