This lively and entertaining collection of mishaps from the Classical Era to the Cold War period is drawn from an impressively wide range of fields of human activity -- politics, religion, economics, technology, medicine and many more.
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Geoffrey Regan is the author of more than twenty books of military history and served as a consultant on the "Great Blunders" television series. He lives in England.
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The more faults human beings find with the conditions in which they live, the more they try to change them for the better. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, Mao Zedong, Red Guards, Robert Carr, Anne Turner, Idi Amin, South Africa, Cecil Rhodes, Holy Land, Liu Shaoqi, Red Sea, South America, Titus Oates, Volstead Act, New York, Chairman Mao, King James, Soviet Union, Groundnut Army, Lambert Simnel, Margaret Thatcher, Saddam Hussein, South Sea Company, Pope Innocent, Black Death New!
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The more faults human beings find with the conditions in which they live, the more they try to change them for the better. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
groundnut scheme, second fleet, new cartridges Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Mao Zedong, Red Guards, Robert Carr, Anne Turner, Idi Amin, South Africa, Cecil Rhodes, Holy Land, Liu Shaoqi, Red Sea, South America, Titus Oates, Volstead Act, New York, Chairman Mao, King James, Soviet Union, Groundnut Army, Lambert Simnel, Margaret Thatcher, Saddam Hussein, South Sea Company, Pope Innocent, Black Death New!
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- The Black Death (Great Disasters) by James Day on page 144
- Don Giovanni in Full Score by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on page 163
- Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh on page 119
- Mary, Queen of Scots (Scottie Books) by Elizabeth Dougals on page 82
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