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Author : Geoffrey Regan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Snafu written by Geoffrey Regan and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael E. Haskew
Publisher : Parragon Pubishing India
ISBN 13 : 9781407555638
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (556 download)
Download or read book Great Military Disasters written by Michael E. Haskew and published by Parragon Pubishing India. This book was released on 2009 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides detailed coverage and tactical maps of various historic battles from Cannae to Mogadishu.
Author : Julian Spilsbury
Publisher : Quercus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178429215X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (842 download)
Download or read book Great Military Disasters written by Julian Spilsbury and published by Quercus Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Military Disasters tells the dramatic stories behind the world's most calamitous conflicts. From the French army's failure to understand the impact of new technology at Crécy to Hitler's blatant overconfidence at Stalingrad, military historian Julian Spilsbury provides thrilling accounts of each disaster, covering exactly what went wrong, how and why. Of course, a disastrous outcome for one side meant victory for another, so as well as exploring the reasons the conflict ended in disaster, Great Military Disasters also reveals the key to victory. Eyewitness quotations add another dimension to this intriguing study of human incompetence of the gravest kind.
Author : James M. Perry
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470347058
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Arrogant Armies written by James M. Perry and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-05-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nothing goes wrong quite so dramatically as a disastrous military expedition."--from the Introduction ARROGANT ARMIES Spanning more than two hundred years of martial adventurism, aggression, and outright blundering, Arrogant Armies chronicles the profoundly misguided and utterly calamitous military expeditions of the great empire builders and overconfident expeditionary forces. From colonial America to South Africa, from Mesopotamia to Khartoum, an extraordinary number of presumably superior armies grievously underestimated native forces. Using contemporary newspaper accounts, military memoirs, diaries of soldiers who fought in the battles, and other firsthand letters and papers, noted journalist James Perry brings a sense of urgency and immediacy to these historic defeats. At times devastating, at times hilarious, his vast panorama of human folly is peopled by frightened soldiers, zealous native resistance, and, of course, a colorful gallery of arrogant, often inept officers. Many of them received their ultimate comeuppance in these battles: Generals Edward Braddock, Charles MacCarthy, William R. Shafter, Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend, Charles "Chinese" Gordon, William George Keith Elphinstone, Manuel Fernandez Silvestre, and others. What is most remarkable about Arrogant Armies is the cumulative power of these ironic encounters. Black humor, brutality, staggering incompetence, and genuine drama come together with devastating force. In Arrogant Armies Perry casts a sharply critical eye on what he describes as the "small wars, what Kipling called the 'savage wars of peace.'" It is fascinating history and a compelling commentary on politics and "the dark side of the human race . . . its deadly preoccupation with war." "As one of our nation's top political reporters, Jim Perry has covered his share of political disasters. Now he has turned his skills to this sad but brilliant chronicle of military disasters. In the process, he has produced a classic."--Sander Vanocur The History Channel "Jim Perry has long been one of America's great political reporters. This has been perfect training to write this marvelous book, Arrogant Armies. Having covered more than a few contemporary political disasters, Perry is able to brilliantly, often hilariously, capture the worst military blunders of the past several hundred years. These fiascoes span the globe from the Middle East to Southeast Asia to Haiti, and chronologically from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. There are common characteristics: commanders afflicted with drunkenness, debauchery, arrogance, and often just plain stupidity. With vitality, a sense of irony and history, Jim Perry gives you a battle-side seat at these debacles."--Albert R. Hunt Executive Washington Editor Wall Street Journal "Jim Perry has done, in Arrogant Armies, what he has always done. He has told us stories we haven't heard before. He has explored an unmined vein of history with enthusiasm, skill, and style. History buffs will delight in Arrogant Armies. I'm not so sure, however, about the generals."=Roger Mudd The History Channel
Author : Julian Spilsbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781435124455
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (244 download)
Download or read book Great Military Disasters written by Julian Spilsbury and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John T. Kuehn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The 100 Worst Military Disasters in History written by John T. Kuehn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 100 Worst Military Disasters in History is a fascinating collection that educators, students, and historians will all find useful in helping them understand the causes and consequences of the most infamous military failures in history. The dynamics of military disaster are equally, if not more, important as understanding how to achieve success on the battlefield. This comprehensive book covers the complete gamut of human history as it tells the compelling stories of the worst military debacles of all time. It covers battles, campaigns, and wars, starting with the ancient Persians and Greeks and finishing with the U.S. conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Not limited to land warfare, however, the book also includes a number of the most disastrous naval engagements and campaigns in world history. The 100 Worst Military Disasters in History opens with a detailed introduction illuminating the role military strategy and politics played in some of the worst battlefield failures throughout history. The entries are augmented with several engaging sidebars related to various military disasters. This eclectic collection includes coverage of many lesser known military disasters such as the Taiping Rebellion, during which 20 times more Chinese died than the number of people killed in the American Civil War.
Author : James Moorhead Perry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Arrogant Armies written by James Moorhead Perry and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Saul David
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
ISBN 13 : 9781459672765
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (727 download)
Download or read book Military Blunders (Large Print 16pt) written by Saul David and published by ReadHowYouWant. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retelling the most spectacular cock - ups in military history, this graphic account has a great deal to say about the psychology of military incompetence and the reasons even the most well - oiled military machines inflict disaster upon themselves. Beginning in AD9 with the massacre of Varus and his legions in the Black Forest all the way up to present day conflict in Afghanistan, it analyses why things go wrong on the battlefield and who is to blame.
Author : Charles Messenger
Publisher : Gallery Books
ISBN 13 : 9780831740160
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Great Military Disasters written by Charles Messenger and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 1991-08-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9781445431833
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Great Military Disasters written by and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John T. Kuehn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The 100 Worst Military Disasters in History written by John T. Kuehn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 100 Worst Military Disasters in History is a fascinating collection that educators, students, and historians will all find useful in helping them understand the causes and consequences of the most infamous military failures in history. The dynamics of military disaster are equally, if not more, important as understanding how to achieve success on the battlefield. This comprehensive book covers the complete gamut of human history as it tells the compelling stories of the worst military debacles of all time. It covers battles, campaigns, and wars, starting with the ancient Persians and Greeks and finishing with the U.S. conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Not limited to land warfare, however, the book also includes a number of the most disastrous naval engagements and campaigns in world history. The 100 Worst Military Disasters in History opens with a detailed introduction illuminating the role military strategy and politics played in some of the worst battlefield failures throughout history. The entries are augmented with several engaging sidebars related to various military disasters. This eclectic collection includes coverage of many lesser known military disasters such as the Taiping Rebellion, during which 20 times more Chinese died than the number of people killed in the American Civil War.
Author : Parragon
Publisher : Parragon
ISBN 13 : 9781445464367
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (643 download)
Download or read book Great Military Disasters written by Parragon and published by Parragon. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an accessible introduction of 24 of the greatest catastrophes in the history of warefare, including Cannae, Agincourt, the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the Charge of the Light Brigade, the destruction of the French army at Sedon, Midway, Stalingrad, Dien Bien Phu, and many, many more. It includes full-color tactical maps that allow the reader to grasp at a glance the decisive moves of the battle. It features over 180 color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations of soldiers, uniforms, and military technology, bringing the rich history of these disasters to life.
Author : Charles Messenger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780861248254
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (482 download)
Download or read book Great Military Disasters written by Charles Messenger and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Gero
Publisher : Haynes Publishing UK
ISBN 13 : 9781844256457
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (564 download)
Download or read book Military Aviation Disasters written by David Gero and published by Haynes Publishing UK. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year dozens of military aircraft come to grief, ranging from fighters and bombers to trainers and transports. David Gero covers major military disasters worldwide and gives full details of the aircraft involved, its operator, route, location of crash, loss of life, and where known the reason for the crash. The author has undertaken considerable detective work to piece together details of many of the incidents recorded here. In this revised and updated second edition, he has investigated significant military aircraft disasters from 1999 to 2008, including the conflicts in Bosnia, the Second Gulf War and Afghanistan.
Author : Charles A. Lockwood
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359257402
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (592 download)
Download or read book Tragedy at Honda written by Charles A. Lockwood and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-11-28 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known to seafarers as 'The Devil's Jaw, ' Point Honda has lured ships to its jagged rocks on the coast of California for centuries, but its worst calamity occurred on 8 September, 1923, the night nine U.S. Navy destroyers ran into Honda's fog-wrapped reefs. Admiral turned author Charles Lockwood (Sink 'Em All, Hellcats of the Sea) brilliantly recreates events as they happened, including the heroic efforts to rescue the men and ships. In his view, the cause of the tragedy lay in the interpretation of the differences that exist between the classic concepts of naval regulations and the stark realism of the unwritten code of destroyer doctrine to follow the leader.
Author : John Hughes-Wilson
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789466768
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (894 download)
Download or read book Military Intelligence Blunders written by John Hughes-Wilson and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A cracking good read... I will recommend this book to anyone' - Professor Richard Holmes, CBE 'The Falklands, Yom Kippur, Tet and Pearl Harbor? Avoidable intelligence blunders or much worse? Altogether a compelling read from someone who knows the business' - Nigel West This book is a professional military-intelligence officer's - and controversial insider's - view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of recent history. It includes the serious developments in government misuse of intelligence in the US-led coalition's 2003 war with Iraq, as well as failures of intelligence in Ukraine following Russia's invasion in February 2022. Colonel John Hughes-Wilson analyses not just the events that conspire to cause disaster, but why crucial intelligence is so often ignored, misunderstood or spun by politicians and seasoned generals alike. This book analyses: how Hitler's intelligence staff misled him in a bid to outfox their Nazi Party rivals; the bureaucratic bungling behind Pearl Harbor; how in-fighting within American intelligence ensured they were taken off guard by the Viet Cong's 1968 Tet Offensive; how overconfidence, political interference and deception facilitated Egypt and Syria's 1973 surprise attack on Israel; why a handful of marines and a London taxicab were all Britain had to defend the Falklands; the mistaken intelligence that allowed Saddam Hussein to remain in power until the second Iraq War of 2003; the truth behind the US failure to run a terrorist warning system before the 9/11 WTC bombing; and how governments are increasingly pressurising intelligence agencies to 'spin' a party-political line.
Author : Luis Gorrochategui Santos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350016985
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The English Armada written by Luis Gorrochategui Santos and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the year between July 1588, when the Spanish Armada set sail from Spain and July 1589, when the survivors of the English counterpart of this fleet, the little-known English Armada, reached port in England, two of history's worst naval catastrophes took place. A great deal of attention has been dedicated to the former and precious little to the latter. This book presents a full-scale account of an event which has been neglected for more than four centuries. It reconstructs the military operations day by day for the first time, taking apart the established notion that, with the defeat of the Spanish Armada, England achieved maritime supremacy and the decay of Spain began. This book clearly and in a rigorously documented fashion shows how the defeat of the English Armada counterbalanced that of the Spanish, frustrating England's intention of seizing Philip II's American empire and changing the tide of the war.
