The contents include day-to-day skills such as how to BESIEGE A CASTLE, FIRE A LONGBOW, CORRECTLY CLEAN A MAXIM MACHINE GUN and CAPTURE AN ENEMY TRENCH; sporting sciences such as JOUSTING, FENCING AND BOXING (QUEENSBURY RULES, OF COURSE); and domestic essentials such as how to HUNT, KILL, CLEAN and COOK A WILD BOAR.

Airmen and soldiers, knights and pages, gentlemen and rogues: to you we say pip pip, and what what! Stiffen your lip and tighten your sword belt! Tie down your trebuchets, wax your moustache, and delve into this manliest of manuals.