History's Worst Decisions: And the People who Made ThemAllen & Unwin, 2005 - 256 pàgines 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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Pàgina 10
... Damage Done : Original Sin Why : The essential folly of humankind starts here with the original humans Of man's first disobedience , and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought Death into the world , and all our woe ...
... Damage Done : Original Sin Why : The essential folly of humankind starts here with the original humans Of man's first disobedience , and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought Death into the world , and all our woe ...
Pàgina 14
... Damage Done : Destruction of the city of Troy ; decade - long abandonment of Greek territory Why : Chasing a lost wife halfway across the known world So far there had been nothing worse than woman - stealing on both sides ; but for what ...
... Damage Done : Destruction of the city of Troy ; decade - long abandonment of Greek territory Why : Chasing a lost wife halfway across the known world So far there had been nothing worse than woman - stealing on both sides ; but for what ...
Pàgina 20
... Damage Done : Destruction of half his own 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 ...
... Damage Done : Destruction of half his own 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 ...
Pàgina 27
... Damage Done : Two empires lost , the Ptolemaic and Roman Why : A little too much lying down for the country Age cannot wither her , nor custom stale Her infinite variety : other women cloy The appetites they feed , but she makes hungry ...
... Damage Done : Two empires lost , the Ptolemaic and Roman Why : A little too much lying down for the country Age cannot wither her , nor custom stale Her infinite variety : other women cloy The appetites they feed , but she makes hungry ...
Pàgina 32
... Damage Done : Burning down his own city Why : Making room for his own new palace For six days and seven nights destruction raged , while the people were driven for shelter to monuments and tombs . At that time , besides an immense ...
... Damage Done : Burning down his own city Why : Making room for his own new palace For six days and seven nights destruction raged , while the people were driven for shelter to monuments and tombs . At that time , besides an immense ...
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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 Previsualització no disponible - 2008 |
History's Worst Decisions and the People who Made Them Stephen Weir Previsualització no disponible - 2009 |
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