古德明《征服英语》之英语军事故事，古德明，香港英语教育作家，他开了一个《征服英语专栏》，在专栏中专门用英语写了世界近代史上的军事小故事，用英语讲述历史中那些惊心动魄的战争。
抵制先生
in the 18th century, the english made it legally impossible for irish catholics to buy property, so land ownership in ireland was concentrated in protestant hands-- often"mainlanders".
in the 1870s, a retired english soldier, charles boycott, accepted employment in ireland as an agent for an absentee landlord. a harsh man, he insisted on collecting the last farthing of rent, and evicting tenants who could not pay. in 1880, the irish launched a campaign of isolation against him. his tenants and servants stopped work, neighbours did not talk to him, shops refused to serve him, and postal workers ceased delivering his mail. life soon proved unbearable to him, and he had to leave ireland on 1 december of the same year. his name, however, became immortalised by the creation of the verb"to boycott".
