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 14
... known world So far there had been nothing worse than woman - stealing on both sides ; but for what happened next the Greeks were seriously to blame ; for it was the Greeks who were , in a military sense , the aggressors . Abducting ...
... known world So far there had been nothing worse than woman - stealing on both sides ; but for what happened next the Greeks were seriously to blame ; for it was the Greeks who were , in a military sense , the aggressors . Abducting ...
Pàgina 17
... known as Hisarlik . Troy seems to have been destroyed around 1180 B.C. after being around for at least five centuries . It remained in the realm of myth until the German archaeol- ogist Heinrich Schliemann found it , in the late ...
... known as Hisarlik . Troy seems to have been destroyed around 1180 B.C. after being around for at least five centuries . It remained in the realm of myth until the German archaeol- ogist Heinrich Schliemann found it , in the late ...
Pàgina 21
... known mountainous region to conquer Rome with his 50,000 troops 9,000 horses and pack animals , and 37 elephants . The elephants were certainly a novelty in southern Europe and caused HANNIBAL much panic among enemy soldiers , though ...
... known mountainous region to conquer Rome with his 50,000 troops 9,000 horses and pack animals , and 37 elephants . The elephants were certainly a novelty in southern Europe and caused HANNIBAL much panic among enemy soldiers , though ...
Pàgina 29
... known for his drinking , womanizing , and general vulgarity . He fell for Cleopatra's show - wom- anship absolutely . Their relationship was immediate and intense , and resulted shortly in twins . After a sojourn back in Rome to attend ...
... known for his drinking , womanizing , and general vulgarity . He fell for Cleopatra's show - wom- anship absolutely . Their relationship was immediate and intense , and resulted shortly in twins . After a sojourn back in Rome to attend ...
Pàgina 31
... known as the last of the Pharaohs . Perhaps somewhere she smiled as General Nasser won his victories over another set of conquerors during the Suez crisis centuries later . DECISIONS MOTIVATION anger charity NERO AND THE BURNING envy ...
... known as the last of the Pharaohs . Perhaps somewhere she smiled as General Nasser won his victories over another set of conquerors during the Suez crisis centuries later . DECISIONS MOTIVATION anger charity NERO AND THE BURNING envy ...
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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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