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- Author: Bill Fawcett
- Publisher: William Morrow & Company
- ISBN-10: 0061358444
- ISBN-13: 9780061358449
- Format: 13.6 x 20.1 x 2.2 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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From the Crusades to the modern age of chemical warfare and smart bombs, history is littered with truly disastrous military campaigns. How to Lose a War chronicles some of the most remarkable strategic catastrophes and doomed military adventures of overreaching invaders and clueless defenders--whether the failure was a result of poor planning, miscalculations, monumental ego, or failed intelligence . . . or just a really stupid idea to begin with.
- Alexander invades India--and ends up in deep vindaloo.
- Sacre bleu! The French are humiliated by Prussia in 1870.
- spain's "invincible navy" breaks up off the coast of britain while attempting an invasion.
- the mau mau rebellion against the british in kenya shows us how not to run an insurgency.
- Chiang Kai-Shek's pathetic army fails to keep Mao's Communists from grabbing China.
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- Author: Bill Fawcett
- Publisher: William Morrow & Company
- ISBN-10: 0061358444
- ISBN-13: 9780061358449
- Format: 13.6 x 20.1 x 2.2 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
From the Crusades to the modern age of chemical warfare and smart bombs, history is littered with truly disastrous military campaigns. How to Lose a War chronicles some of the most remarkable strategic catastrophes and doomed military adventures of overreaching invaders and clueless defenders--whether the failure was a result of poor planning, miscalculations, monumental ego, or failed intelligence . . . or just a really stupid idea to begin with.
- Alexander invades India--and ends up in deep vindaloo.
- Sacre bleu! The French are humiliated by Prussia in 1870.
- spain's "invincible navy" breaks up off the coast of britain while attempting an invasion.
- the mau mau rebellion against the british in kenya shows us how not to run an insurgency.
- Chiang Kai-Shek's pathetic army fails to keep Mao's Communists from grabbing China.
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