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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... forces . A huge Roman army belatedly set out and met Hannibal's depleted force at the plain of Cannae . Hannibal fought one of the finest battles in mil- itary history and beat the Romans in a wonderful set piece . But he no longer had ...
... forces . A huge Roman army belatedly set out and met Hannibal's depleted force at the plain of Cannae . Hannibal fought one of the finest battles in mil- itary history and beat the Romans in a wonderful set piece . But he no longer had ...
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... force safely across , but added another 30,000 men from Gallic tribes that he was more successful in allying with . Unfortunately these forces never reached Hannibal . This time the Romans were ready and waiting , and totally destroyed ...
... force safely across , but added another 30,000 men from Gallic tribes that he was more successful in allying with . Unfortunately these forces never reached Hannibal . This time the Romans were ready and waiting , and totally destroyed ...
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... forces , while waiting for the next leader to emerge in Rome . By 41 B.C. that looked a lot like Marc Antony . Octavian was ill and Antony CAESAR WAS PRESENTED summoned Cleopatra to Tarsus for a conference . She arrived in as much style ...
... forces , while waiting for the next leader to emerge in Rome . By 41 B.C. that looked a lot like Marc Antony . Octavian was ill and Antony CAESAR WAS PRESENTED summoned Cleopatra to Tarsus for a conference . She arrived in as much style ...
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... forces and chased after her . Octavian then launched a full - scale assault on Egypt and within a year had captured Alexandria . Antony fell on his own sword to avoid capture , losing his power base strength and life in his lust for his ...
... forces and chased after her . Octavian then launched a full - scale assault on Egypt and within a year had captured Alexandria . Antony fell on his own sword to avoid capture , losing his power base strength and life in his lust for his ...
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... forces virtually nothing . Or Gerald Ratner , who , in a moment of poorly timed candor , derided one of his company's products- " crap , " he called it - and effectively destroyed the multimillion - dollar firm and thousands of jobs ...
... forces virtually nothing . Or Gerald Ratner , who , in a moment of poorly timed candor , derided one of his company's products- " crap , " he called it - and effectively destroyed the multimillion - dollar firm and thousands of jobs ...
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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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