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Great military blunders

By Geoffrey , Regan

Book information

Publisher
4 Books
Year
2000
ISBN
0-7522-1844-1, 9780752218441, 9780752218984, 0752218980
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
99 MB (103593810 bytes)
Pages
191\192
Time added
2016-04-05 23:00:00

Description

This entertaining and enlightening history examines landmark military screw-ups and their consequences, from those that are merely amusing in hindsight to the truly tragic. Twenty-five blunders span 600 years, but focus on episodes from major 19th and 20th century conflicts like the Boer War, World Wars I and II, the Zulu Wars, Indochina, the Tehran hostage crisis, Grenada, and Kosovo. Organized around themes like ''Unfit to Lead'', ''Planning'', ''Underestimating the Enemy'', ''Hubris and Nemesis'', and ''Technology'', the book is illustrated throughout with period drawings, paintings, photographs, and maps

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