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 11
... whole myth , which essentially blames Eve for the Fall . She gets tempted by Satan in the form of a serpent , she talks Adam into trying the Forbidden Fruit , Adam the good , slightly naïve gardener who has been busy naming flora and ...
... whole myth , which essentially blames Eve for the Fall . She gets tempted by Satan in the form of a serpent , she talks Adam into trying the Forbidden Fruit , Adam the good , slightly naïve gardener who has been busy naming flora and ...
Pàgina 15
... whole , history has shown it unwise to be a guest in someone's house and take his wife away with you . We add to this the categorical double idiocies of anger and envy , compounded when Menelaus insisted on old treaty rights and dragged ...
... whole , history has shown it unwise to be a guest in someone's house and take his wife away with you . We add to this the categorical double idiocies of anger and envy , compounded when Menelaus insisted on old treaty rights and dragged ...
Pàgina 18
... whole life ; and , though it was my lot , at the age of fourteen , to be apprenticed in the warehouse of E. Ludwig Holtz in the small town of Furstenberg in Mecklenburg , instead of following the scientific career for which I felt an ...
... whole life ; and , though it was my lot , at the age of fourteen , to be apprenticed in the warehouse of E. Ludwig Holtz in the small town of Furstenberg in Mecklenburg , instead of following the scientific career for which I felt an ...
Pàgina 21
... whole Iberian peninsula . After Saguntum fell , the Romans , although occupied with other confrontations in their terri- tories , had little choice but to declare hostilities . The second Punic War had begun . It was in Hannibal's ...
... whole Iberian peninsula . After Saguntum fell , the Romans , although occupied with other confrontations in their terri- tories , had little choice but to declare hostilities . The second Punic War had begun . It was in Hannibal's ...
Pàgina 25
... whole shape of European civilization . Hannibal's trek over the Alps continues to provoke awe and is one of the most famous verifiable incidents of ancient times . You can today follow Hannibal's route across the Alps - or one of them ...
... whole shape of European civilization . Hannibal's trek over the Alps continues to provoke awe and is one of the most famous verifiable incidents of ancient times . You can today follow Hannibal's route across the Alps - or one of them ...
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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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