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The Mare's Nest is a 1964 book by English author, and Holocaust denier, David Irving, focusing on the German V-weapons campaign of 1944–45 and the Allied military and intelligence effort (Operation Crossbow) to counter it.
- David Irving
- United Kingdom
- 1964
- English
What's the meaning of the phrase 'Mare's nest'? A much vaunted discovery, which later turns out to be illusory or worthless.
A telegraphic peon, one day, Brought her - now, had it been a letter. For Belial Machiavelli, I. Know Jane would just have let it lie. But 'twas a telegram instead, Marked "urgent," and her duty plain . To open it. Jane Austen read: "Your Lilly's got a cough again. Can't understand why she is kept. At your expense." Jane Austen wept.
- Publication History
- The Theme
- Background and Critical Opinions
- Notes on The Text
This poem was first published as “The Legend of the Lilly” in the Pioneer on 22 August and in the Pioneer Mail on 30 August 1885. See ORG Volume 8, page 5080, (listed as Verse No. 486). For further details of publication see David Alan Richards, page 12. See also our Notes on “L’Envoi” to Departmental Ditties“. It is collected, without two lines, a...
This amusing little piece – perhaps inspired by gossip heard at the Club – concerns a very innocent woman, with an unlikely name, married to a ’fast’ man with an equally unlikely name. She is unaware that he keeps a mare called Lilly (sic)and, believing her to be his mistress, begins divorce proceedings. All comes right in the end however; she ride...
Cornell(p. 83) explains how, in the summer of 1885 at Simla: Charles Carrington (p. 78.) explains how Departmental Ditties came to be published, and quotes from “My First Book” which contained his “Bungalow Ballads”, some of which were later published as Departmental Ditties:
[Title] A play on words. The verses refer to a mare, and to find a ‘Mare’s Nest’ is to make a great discovery only to find, on investigation, that it is nonsense. [Verse 1] Jane Austen: (1775-1817): The celebrated English novelist, much revered by Kipling. See his tale “The Janeites”, and the poems “Jane’s Marriage”, and “The Survival”.A woman of h...
The Mare’s Nest is The story of Hitler’s V-weapons the British Intelligence attack on them. The first edition had to be cleared by the Ministry of Defence, the Cabinet Office, the Foreign Office and the Prime Minister. The Mare’s Nest new edition contains the formerly excised chapters. Laminate hardback.
- Books
THE MARE’S NEST The War against Hitler’s Secret Vengeance Weapons “David Irving is the forensic pathologist of modern military history. He dissects, analyses and describes with an unflinching, unsqueamish surgical skill. His knife exposes the tumours, the cancers and horrors of war. The reader becomes a spectator in an operating theatre ...
16 de nov. de 2022 · A 'mare's nest' refers to the idea that a mare would create a disastrous mess around themselves, and the expression stuck with the language. The phrase 'mare's nest' is almost never used in the literal sense, but most of the modern uses of the phrase has it as a figurative saying instead.
