History's Worst Decisions: And the People who Made ThemAllen & Unwin, 2005 - 256 páginas The 64 A.D. burning of Rome during the reign of Nero ... Winston Churchill's ill-conceived and disastrous World War I plan to invade Turkey at Gallipoli ... the Maginot Line, built in France in 1929-34 in a foolhardy effort to prevent the feared German invasion ... the 1950s thalidomide pharmaceutical disaster that resulted in at least 20,000 babies born with deformities ... the 1989-91 misappropriation of company funds by publishing executive Robert Maxwell, and the collapse of his financial empire ... the Enron scandal of 2000 that brought down a yet larger business empire. Chronicled in these pages are stories of corporate chicanery, poor military decisions, engineering disasters, diplomatic blunders, and other appalling, large-scale mistakes that resulted in ruin and misery for countless innocent bystanders. Here are baleful tales motivated by false hope, anger, greed, pride, lust, and many other instances of erratic human behavior. A selection of approximately 50 disastrous decisions are presented, each grim account summarized in a report of roughly a half-dozen pages and enhanced with sidebars and thumbnail-sized cartoon-style illustrations. Each account opens with its cast of characters, then sets the story's background before reporting the grim details and concluding with the unhappy moral. Here is a page-turner of a book that recounts some of history's most dramatic-but also catastrophic-moments. |
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... Army : Mutiny and Beef Fat ..... 78 16 Thomas Austin's Rabbits ... 17 General Custer and Little Big Horn ... 18 King Leopold and the Scramble for Africa ... 19 Nicholas , Alexandra , and the Mad Monk .. 20 Ismay's Lifeboats .... 21 ...
... Army : Mutiny and Beef Fat ..... 78 16 Thomas Austin's Rabbits ... 17 General Custer and Little Big Horn ... 18 King Leopold and the Scramble for Africa ... 19 Nicholas , Alexandra , and the Mad Monk .. 20 Ismay's Lifeboats .... 21 ...
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... army From Adam and Eve deciding to go for the apple , to those Asian governments who until the end of 2004 decided that tsunamis , which have occurred regularly every hundred years or so since Adam and Eve , just weren't worth the extra ...
... army From Adam and Eve deciding to go for the apple , to those Asian governments who until the end of 2004 decided that tsunamis , which have occurred regularly every hundred years or so since Adam and Eve , just weren't worth the extra ...
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... army , ruining one of the great invasions of history Why : An act of impetuousness caused an avalanche The track , which led down the mountainside , was both narrow and steep , and since neither the men nor the animals could be sure of ...
... army , ruining one of the great invasions of history Why : An act of impetuousness caused an avalanche The track , which led down the mountainside , was both narrow and steep , and since neither the men nor the animals could be sure of ...
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... army in Spain . He immediately switched back to his father's aggressive tactics and recklessly attacked and captured Salamanca , then laid siege to a major Roman town , Saguntum , moving his army rapidly across the whole Iberian ...
... army in Spain . He immediately switched back to his father's aggressive tactics and recklessly attacked and captured Salamanca , then laid siege to a major Roman town , Saguntum , moving his army rapidly across the whole Iberian ...
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... army and only a handful of his vaunted elephants left by the time he got to Italy , although his army hadn't fought a major battle and it had been less than a month since they had left Spain . Hannibal had , inadvertently but personally ...
... army and only a handful of his vaunted elephants left by the time he got to Italy , although his army hadn't fought a major battle and it had been less than a month since they had left Spain . Hannibal had , inadvertently but personally ...
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The First Real Estate Scam | 37 |
Pope Sylvester and the End of the World | 41 |
Disease in the Crimea | 73 |
Mutiny and Beef Fat | 78 |
Thomas Austins Rabbits | 83 |
General Custer and Little Big Horn | 88 |
King Leopold and the Scramble for Africa | 94 |
Nicholas Alexandra and the Mad Monk | 100 |
Ismays Lifeboats | 105 |
The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand | 110 |
Pope Alexander and the Search for Prester John | 45 |
George Podiebrad the Last Bohemian and World Peace | 49 |
Moctezuma and the Returning God | 55 |
The Worst Deal Ever Made | 60 |
Lord North and King George Ills Tea Party | 64 |
Napoleon the March to Russiaand Frankenstein | 68 |
Winston Churchill and the Disaster at Gallipoli | 116 |
Trench Warfare General Haig and the Battle of the Somme | 120 |
Maginots Line | 126 |
The Map of Iraq | 131 |
Stalin and the Great Purge | 136 |
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History's Worst Decisions and the People who Made Them Stephen Weir Pré-visualização indisponível - 2008 |
History's Worst Decisions and the People who Made Them Stephen Weir Pré-visualização indisponível - 2009 |
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