📱 eBook en inglés THE WAR OF THE BUCKET

"The War of the Bucket – The bloody battle fought over a stolen wooden pail" chronicles the Battle of Zappolino in 1325, one of the deadliest and most ridiculous conflicts in medieval Italy. Tensions between the city-states of Bologna and Modena were high, but the spark that ignited the war wasnt land or religion—it was a simple oak bucket stolen from a well by Modenese soldiers.
Historian Julian Ash details how pride and politics escalated the theft into a full-scale invasion. Over 30,000 soldiers marched to recover the bucket, and 2,000 men died in the resulting slaughter. Modena won and kept the bucket, which hangs in their bell tower to this day."The War of the Bucket" is a tragicomic study of human nature. It serves as the ultimate example of how trivial insults can lead to catastrophic violence when fueled by nationalistic ego. It is a story where the punchline is a pile of corpses.