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100 Mistakes That Changed History

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Author : Bill Fawcett
language : en
Publisher: Berkley
Release Date : 2010

100 Mistakes That Changed History written by Bill Fawcett and has been published by Berkley this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.

Examines bad decisions that changed the course of history, including Little Big Horn, the policies that lead to the Dust Bowl, and the Bay of Pigs invasion.

100 Mistakes That Changed History

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Author : Bill Fawcett
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2010-10-05

100 Mistakes That Changed History written by Bill Fawcett and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-05 with History categories.

Collected in one volume, here are backfires and blunders that collapsed empires, crashed economies, and altered the course of the world. 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 Texas-and the Americans never leave. And the rest is history...

100 Mistakes That Changed History

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Author : Bill Fawcett
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2010-10-05

100 Mistakes That Changed History written by Bill Fawcett and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-05 with History categories.

100 Mistakes That Changed History

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Author : Bill Fawcett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010

100 Mistakes That Changed History written by Bill Fawcett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.

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.

Trust Me I Know What I M Doing

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Author : Bill Fawcett
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2012-12-04

Trust Me I Know What I M Doing written by Bill Fawcett and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-04 with History categories.

Hindsight hurts. * The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act, having the American colonies pay for their own defense—which instead starts a revolution. * In 1929, President Herbert Hoover decides to let the economy fix itself…and the Great Depression gets greater. * Nixon tapes everything he says in the Oval Office, believing it will all be of great historical value. He turns out to be right when those same tapes cost him his presidency. * Charles the First cuts a deal with the Irish to fight Parliament that instead loses him public support—and later his head. Along with 100 Mistakes that Changed the World, Trust Me, I Know What I'm Doing proves once again that when global leaders drop the ball, the whole world shakes. With a hundred more bombshell blunders—from Pickett’s Charge to the Lewinski scandal—this compendium takes a fascinating look at some of history’s greatest turns for the worse.

Brilliant Blunders

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Author : Mario Livio
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-05-27

Brilliant Blunders written by Mario Livio and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

"Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achieve breakthroughs, especially into the evolution of life and the universe"--

Doomed To Repeat

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Author : Bill Fawcett
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2013-03-12

Doomed To Repeat written by Bill Fawcett and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-12 with History categories.

“Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.” And so we have. Time and again, mankind has faced down problems, but have often failed to take the hard-earned knowledge into the next battle. Doomed to Repeat is a collection of essays, edited by Bill Fawcett, that illuminates some of the problems we've faced repeatedly throughout history, including Islamic jihad, terrorism, military insurgencies, inflation and the devaluation of currency, financial disasters, ecological collapses, radical political minorities like the Nazis and Bolsheviks, and pandemics and epidemics like the Black Death. With more than 35 chapters of the Groundhog Days of world history, both infamous and obscure, Doomed to Repeat: The Lessons of History We've Failed to Learn is chock-full of trivia, history, and fascinating looks at the world’s repeated mistakes.

The Great Cat Massacre A History Of Britain In 100 Mistakes

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Author : Gareth Rubin
language : en
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Release Date : 2014-05-08

The Great Cat Massacre A History Of Britain In 100 Mistakes written by Gareth Rubin and has been published by Kings Road Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-08 with History categories.

In 1914, a train pulled into a provincial British railway station. The porter, a curious chap, asked the regiment of soldiers where they were from. "Ross-shire," one called down, but the porter heard "Russia." And so began a rumor that led to Germany losing World War I. Often the history we learn at school is only half the story. We hear of heroic deeds and visionary leaders, but we never hear about the people who turned up late for court and thereby changed the law, or who stood in the wrong queue at university and accidentally won a Nobel Prize. "The Great Cat Massacre: A History of Britain in 100 Mistakes" demonstrates that the nation is as much a product of error as design. Through chapters on religion, law, culture, war, science, and politics, it reveals such things as how an edict from Pope Gregory IX helped spread the Black Death, how the sister of cricketer John Willes invented overarm bowling, and how, had a letter not been lost, Disraeli might never have become prime minister. This book is history told through human failings, schoolboy errors, bad luck, and extraordinary consequences; a history of mishearing, misdiagnosis, and misinterpretation a history that you won t find in the textbooks."

Mistakes That Worked

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Author : Charlotte Foltz Jones
language : en
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Release Date : 2016-10-11

Mistakes That Worked written by Charlotte Foltz Jones and has been published by Delacorte Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-11 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

Popsicles, potato chips, Silly Putty, Velcro, and many other familiar things have fascinating stories behind them. In fact, dozens of products and everyday items had surprisingly haphazard beginnings. Mistakes That Worked offers forty of these unusual tales, along with hilarious cartoons and weird and amazing facts. Readers will be surprised and inspired!

Tiny Blunders Big Disasters

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Author : Jared Knott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-10-20

Tiny Blunders Big Disasters written by Jared Knott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-20 with categories.

How often does it happen that a single tiny mistake causes an entire civilization to collapse? More often than you think! Readers of Jared Knott's book, Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters, will be amazed at the little things that changed history in a bit way. Here are a few examples:A single document poorly designed by one single clerk in one single county changed the outcome of a presidential election and led directly to a major war. A soldier accidentally kicks a helmet off of the top of a wall and causes an empire to collapse. A small mechanical device several inches long fails to function, which changes the outcome of WWII and leads to the death of millions of people. A man fails to gather his army in time to defend against an attack because of the temptation of opium and a young slave woman. And many more!Hypnotic and addictive, these well-researched, factual stories will keep you turning pages far past your bedtime. Human weakness at it very worst at critical moments. This book is the "Butterfly Effect" in human history reviewed.

100 Mistakes That Changed History

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