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100 Mistakes That Changed History: Backfires and Blunders That Collapsed Empires, Crashed Economies, and Altered the Course of Our World by Bill Fawcett
Category: History
Collected in one volume, here are backfires and blunders that collapsed empires, crashed economies, and altered the course of the world. From the Maginot Line to the Cuban Missile Crisis, history is filled with bad moves and not-so-bright ideas that snowballed into disasters and unintended consequences. ...Show more
101 Stumbles in the March of History: What If the Great Mistakes in War, Government, Industry, and Economics Were Not Made? by Bill Fawcett
Category: History
Bill Fawcett, author of 100 Mistakes That Changed History (Penguin, 2010), offers a new compendium of 101 mammoth mistakes - from the ill-fated rule of Emperor Darius III to the equally ill-fated search for WMDs in Iraq - that will, unfortunately, never be forgotten by history.
How to Lose WWII: Bad Mistakes of the Good War by Bill Fawcett
Category: unmapped
There had never before been a war on the scale of World War II. The sheer size of the conflict and the immense scope of a single battlefield, multiplied the effects of both brilliant and bad decisions. When millions of men are attacking in a Russian offensive or thousands of aircraft are dueling in the ...Show more
How to Lose a Battle by Bill Fawcett
Category: History
A follow up to "You Did What?", this engrossing and fact-filled compendium of great military disasters and ill-advised battle plans highlights the worst military decisions throughout history and the world. From the ancient Crusades to the modern age of chemical warfare and smart bombs, history is litter ...Show more
How to Lose a War: More Foolish Plans and Great Military Blunders by Bill Fawcett
Category: Military
This is a followup to "How to Lose a Battle", more military blunder miscellany, from Ancient Greece to modern-day, including such ill-fated plans as; Xerxes' defeat in Greece at Marathon; Alexander's invasion of India; Napoloeon's occupation of Spain; the French humiliation by Prussia in 1870; Islanwand ...Show more
How to Lose a War at Sea by Bill Fawcett
Category: Military | Series: How to Lose Ser.
From the Spanish Armada to the modern age of aircraft carriers, history is littered with horribly bad military ideas on the open seas. Whether a result of lack of planning, miscalculations, a leader's ego, spy infiltration, or just a really stupid idea in the first place, each military defeat is fascina ...Show more
How to Lose the Civil War by Bill Fawcett
Category: History
Few events in American history loom as large or changed the country as profoundly as the conflict between the Union and Confederacy. No war could be said to have had higher stakes or such a colorful cast of characters whose decisions endangered the continued existence of the American Experiment. With a ...Show more
Railway Architecture by Bill Fawcett
Category: Technology and Transport | Series: Shire Library
The great arched train sheds of Victorian Britain are often seen as the nineteenth-century equivalent of medieval cathedrals: once specific railway buildings became necessary around 1830 British architects seized the opportunity with both hands, designing some of the great buildings of their age. Howeve ...Show more
The UFO Cover-Up by Bill Fawcett
Category: Popular Science
Authors Lawrence Fawcett and Barry J. Greenwood reveal in this fascinating, thought-provoking book, based on the government's own research and internal files, what they have learned about: UFO's as a threat to national security. UFO sightings at military bases in the United States, North Africa, and the ...Show more
Trust Me, I Know What I'm Doing: 100 More Mistakes That Lost Elections, Ended Empires, and Made the World What It Is Today by Bill Fawcett
Category: History
Hindsight hurts... The British Parliament passes the Townshend Acts, making the American colonies pay for their own defense—which instead starts a revolution. In 1929, President Herbert Hoover decides to let the economy fix itself . . . and the Great Depression gets greater. Charles I cut ...Show more
You Said What?: Lies and Propaganda Throughout History by Bill Fawcett
Category: History
A fascinating, fun, and fact-filled compendium of the greatest lies, deceptions, propaganda, and frauds ever perpetrated throughout history âÃÂàfrom the dawn of man to the War on Terror âÃÂàgovernments, corporations, historians, and high-level braggarts of every stripe have freely enga ...Show more
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