Ebook: 100 mistakes that changed history : backfires and blunders that collapsed empires, crashed economies, and altered the course of our world
Author: Fawcett Bill
- Tags: History -- Miscellanea. History -- Errors inventions etc. History.
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Penguin Group USA
- City: New York
- Language: English
- epub
From the Maginot Line to the Cuban Missile Crisis, history is filled with bad moves and not-so-bright ideas that snowballed into disasters and unintended consequences. This engrossing book looks at one hundred such tipping points. Japan bombs Pearl Harbor. The Caliphs of Baghdad spend themselves into bankruptcy. The Aztecs greet the Conquistadors with open arms. Mexico invites the Americans to Texasand the Americans Read more...
Abstract: From the Maginot Line to the Cuban Missile Crisis, history is filled with bad moves and not-so-bright ideas that snowballed into disasters and unintended consequences. This engrossing book looks at one hundred such tipping points. Japan bombs Pearl Harbor. The Caliphs of Baghdad spend themselves into bankruptcy. The Aztecs greet the Conquistadors with open arms. Mexico invites the Americans to Texasand the Americans never leave