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Lls Louisiana• Britain Invades Afghanistan• Hitler Invades Russia• Europe Introduces the EuroThis beautifully presented volume with over 80 photographs paintings and illustrations shines a light on the people and personalities behind some of history’s biggest blunder. Some of these blunders were frankly bigger than others
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Summary Û PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook ´ Ian Whitelaw
Ggest Blunders features a crop of humongous historical bloopers ordered chronologically and categorized into military religion culture politics scandal environment and everyone’s current favorite economicsChapters include• Conspirators Murder Julius Caesar• Napoleon Se. Here we have a concise bouuet of incidents in world history many of which I didn t remember perpetrated by people who should have known better that will blow your mind The subject matter runs the gamut from Egypt s Pharaoh s refusal to release the Israelites from bondage to Santa Anna s attack on the Alamo to Japan s attack on Pearl Harbor to 9 ll It also includes reports on the genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia including the ineptness corruption and general uselessness of the United Nations I found the book made for fascinating reading
This is not a good book It is not even a little historically accurate The author makes absolutely no attempt to separate his own religion and political ideology from his descriptions of history He cites historical events that never happened at all He cites modern events as biggest blunders of all time which honestly have little impact even a few decades after He misunderstands anthropology and ignores data He
My interest in this book is rather unusual I'm a photojournalist and one day while waiting for my wife to pay for her book at BN I picked up this book and thumbed through it I was very very surprised to see that my photo of Anthony Weiner was in it The photo credit was there as well which meant that the author complied with the sol
The book starts out well enough and has a fun premise the BIGGEST blunders in history how can that not be good? The ancient blunders were fun to read about but the modern material is confusing and certainly does not belong in the book The book starts to lose focus as it closer and closer to modern times In fact I would say that everything up
Here we have a concise bouuet of incidents in world history many of which I didn't remember perpetrated by people who should have know
This book is very West centric and at least a third of the blunders included occurred during or after WWI It's a little difficult to believe that Anthony Weiner sending explicit pictures of himself via Twitter car
Some of these blunders were frankly bigger than others
I had a bad feeling about this book as soon as I started reading it; the first blunder is Humankind domesticates plants and animals which I think most people would agree has turned out pretty well civilization wise I chalked this up to the book not being titled History's Most Nuanced Looks at Societal Development and went on to the second blunder which is Pharaoh not letting Moses and the Jews go free even as the author mentions multiple
It starts out great making the case that agriculture was a mistake and it's a solid case Civilization is not reuired for species surv