Great Military Blunder

by Geoffrey Regan (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $4.44

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $5.24

  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.