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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... Land Grab ... 239 49 Wall Street , Enron , and Those Who Believed ... 243 50 Why a Ten - Year - Old British Girl Knew More than the Thai Government : The Boxing Day Tsunami . . . . . 248 Further Readings ... 253 DECISIONS INTRODUCTION ...
... Land Grab ... 239 49 Wall Street , Enron , and Those Who Believed ... 243 50 Why a Ten - Year - Old British Girl Knew More than the Thai Government : The Boxing Day Tsunami . . . . . 248 Further Readings ... 253 DECISIONS INTRODUCTION ...
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... lands they cre- ated disappeared under the Persian Gulf , and it was the loss of this Paradise that resulted in the ... land that gave ample goods , to a more complicated hunter - gatherer and nomadic existence . However , Elvy E ...
... lands they cre- ated disappeared under the Persian Gulf , and it was the loss of this Paradise that resulted in the ... land that gave ample goods , to a more complicated hunter - gatherer and nomadic existence . However , Elvy E ...
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... LAND , ATTRIBUTED TO GOD'S found in Dubbo , New South Wales . ANGER AT MAN , THAT LED TO THE END OF THE EASY LIFE HUNTER - GATHERER AND Wherever it was , Adam and Eve were most certainly not allowed back in . Cast out from Paradise ...
... LAND , ATTRIBUTED TO GOD'S found in Dubbo , New South Wales . ANGER AT MAN , THAT LED TO THE END OF THE EASY LIFE HUNTER - GATHERER AND Wherever it was , Adam and Eve were most certainly not allowed back in . Cast out from Paradise ...
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... land you don't know much about is not good for those back home . BY MAKING HIS BROTHER AGAMEMNON KILL Archaeological investigations of the original site of Troy put the date of HIS OWN DAUGHTER . the war in the thirteenth or twelfth ...
... land you don't know much about is not good for those back home . BY MAKING HIS BROTHER AGAMEMNON KILL Archaeological investigations of the original site of Troy put the date of HIS OWN DAUGHTER . the war in the thirteenth or twelfth ...
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... land as he was at sea . She locked herself away for three days until she was due to be taken to Rome , called for the now - emblematic figs and asp , and , possibly in the belief that the Egyptian religion guaranteed immortality with ...
... land as he was at sea . She locked herself away for three days until she was due to be taken to Rome , called for the now - emblematic figs and asp , and , possibly in the belief that the Egyptian religion guaranteed immortality with ...
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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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