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…
Author: Fawcett Bill
ISBN: 9781101443675
Year of publication: 2010
Genre: History, Popular science
Number of pages: 368
Reading time: 6 h. 8 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
Language: english
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