The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman

Raymond Briggs’s 1985 picture-book satire, published by Little, Brown, uses his signature blend of blunt, childlike illustration and caustic humor to skewer the Falklands War. A single, unflinching issue, it reduces the conflict to a squabble between a cartoonish tin-pot general and an old iron woman, stripping away jingoism to reveal the human cost. Briggs’s stark, angry fable remains a potent anti-war statement and a unique artifact of 1980s political cartooning.