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The 100 Worst Military Disasters in History

Author : John T. Kuehn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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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.

The 100 Worst Military Disasters in History

Author : John T. Kuehn
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
ISBN 13 : 1440862680
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book The 100 Worst Military Disasters in History written by John T. Kuehn and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 0 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.

The 100 Worst Military Disasters in History

Author : John T. Kuehn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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World's Worst Military Disasters

Author : Chris McNab
Publisher : Rosen Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9781404218413
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book World's Worst Military Disasters written by Chris McNab and published by Rosen Publishing Group. This book was released on 2009 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the greatest military failures in each epoch of history from ancient times to the present, cases in which defeat came from human error or technical or logistical problems and not just the victors' tactical or weapons superiority.

World's Worst Military Disasters

Author : Chris McNab
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781840138085
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book World's Worst Military Disasters written by Chris McNab and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at some of the worst battlefield defeats in military history, this book features doomed campaigns such as Little Big Horn and Operation Eagle Claw, as well as examining the critical flaws in the battle plans.

Great Military Disasters

Author : Julian Spilsbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781435124455
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (244 download)

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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:

Military Blunders (Large Print 16pt)

Author : Saul David
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
ISBN 13 : 9781459672765
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (727 download)

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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.

Arrogant Armies

Author : James M. Perry
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470347058
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)

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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

100 Mistakes that Changed History

Author : Bill Fawcett
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101443677
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book 100 Mistakes that Changed History written by Bill Fawcett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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...

On Afghanistan's Plains

Author : Jules Stewart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857720031
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book On Afghanistan's Plains written by Jules Stewart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's military involvement in Afghanistan is a contentious subject, yet it is often forgotten that the current conflict is in fact the fourth in a string of such wars dating back as far as the early nineteenth century. Aiming to protect the British territories in India from the expanding Russian empire, the British fought a series of conflicts on Afghan territory between 1838 and 1919. The Anglo-Afghan wars of the 19th and early 20th centuries were ill-conceived and led to some of the worst military disasters ever sustained by British forces in this part of the world, with poor strategy in the First Afghan War resulting in the annihilation of 16,000 soldiers and civilians in a single week. In his new book, Jules Stewart explores the potential danger of replaying Britain's military catastrophes and considers what can be learnt from revisiting the story of these earlier Afghan wars.

Urban Battlefields

Author : Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1682476316
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Urban Battlefields written by Gregory Fremont-Barnes and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Battlefields: Lessons Learned from World War II to the Modern Era offers a detailed study of the complexities of urban operations, demonstrating through historical conflicts their key features, the various weapons and tactics employed by both sides, and the factors that contributed to success or failure. Urban operations are a relatively recent phenomenon and an increasingly prominent feature of today’s operational environment, typified by on-going fighting in Syria and Iraq. Here, Gregory Fremont-Barnes has enlisted ten experts to examine the key elements that characterize this particularly costly and difficult method of fighting by focusing on notable examples across the modern era. He covers their nineteenth-century roots, and follows with case studies ranging from major conventional formations to counterinsurgency and civil resistance. The contributors analyze the distinct features of urban warfare, which separate it from fighting in open areas, particularly the three-dimensional nature of the operating environment. These include: the restricted fields of fire and view; the substantial advantages conferred on the defender as a result of concealed positions and ubiquitous cover; the often- abundant presence of subterranean features including cellars, tunnels, and drainage and sewer systems; and the recurrent problems imposed by snipers holding up the progress of troops many times their number. Further, the authors consider how the presence of civilians may influence the rules of engagement and also may provide an advantage to the defender. Urban Battlefields illustrates why warfare in metropolises can be protracted and costly. It also illustrates why modest numbers of soldiers, militia, or insurgents with nothing more than shoulder-borne anti-tank weapons or ground-to-air missile systems, small arms, and improvised explosive devices can drastically reduce the effectiveness of much better disciplined, trained, and armed adversaries. Furthermore, it explains how those short-term advantages can be neutralized and ultimately overcome.

American Military History Volume 1

Author : Army Center of Military History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944961404
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book American Military History Volume 1 written by Army Center of Military History and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Military History provides the United States Army-in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadets-with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Army's history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war-global war-was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009.

The Face of Battle

Author : John Keegan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440673993
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Face of Battle written by John Keegan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1983-01-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Keegan's groundbreaking portrayal of the common soldier in the heat of battle -- a masterpiece that explores the physical and mental aspects of warfare The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at the "point of maximum danger." Without the myth-making elements of rhetoric and xenophobia, and breaking away from the stylized format of battle descriptions, John Keegan has written what is probably the definitive model for military historians. And in his scrupulous reassessment of three battles representative of three different time periods, he manages to convey what the experience of combat meant for the participants, whether they were facing the arrow cloud at the battle of Agincourt, the musket balls at Waterloo, or the steel rain of the Somme. The Face of Battle is a companion volume to John Keegan's classic study of the individual soldier, The Mask of Command: together they form a masterpiece of military and human history.

Disasters in History

Author : Donald B. Lemke
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 166631532X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (663 download)

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Download or read book Disasters in History written by Donald B. Lemke and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True-life tragedies jump off the page in this dynamic collection of graphic novels. From the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor to the Great Chicago Fire and the space shuttle Challenger explosion, step back in time to experience some of the worst disasters in history. With eight stories in all, this riveting collection helps readers understand how the most devastating events in history happened and provides valuable perspectives on the lessons that rose from the ashes of despair.

Disaster On Green Ramp: The Army's Response

Author : Mary Ellen Condon-Rall
Publisher : InfoStrategist.com
ISBN 13 : 1592433286
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book Disaster On Green Ramp: The Army's Response written by Mary Ellen Condon-Rall and published by InfoStrategist.com. This book was released on with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features the electronic book "Disaster on Green Ramp: The Army's Response" by Mary Ellen Condon-Rall of the Center of Military History in Washington, D.C. Discusses a plane crash and massive fire at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina, that killed or injured more than 100 paratroopers in 1994.

Agents of Innovation

Author : John Trost Kuehn
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612514057
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Agents of Innovation written by John Trost Kuehn and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agents of Innovation examines the influence of the General Board of the Navy as agents of innovation during the period between World Wars I and II. The General Board, a formal body established by the Secretary of the Navy to advise him on both strategic matters with respect to the fleet, served as the organizational nexus for the interaction between fleet design and the naval limitations imposed on the Navy by treaty during the period. Particularly important was the General Board’s role in implementing the Washington Naval Treaty that limited naval armaments after 1922. The General Board orchestrated the efforts by the principal Naval Bureaus, the Naval War College, and the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations in ensuring that the designs adopted for the warships built and modified during the period of the Washington and London Naval Treaties both met treaty requirements while attempting to meet strategic needs. The leadership of the Navy at large, and the General Board in particular, felt themselves especially constrained by Article XIX (the fortification clause) of the Washington Naval Treaty that implemented a status quo on naval fortifications in the Western Pacific. The treaty system led the Navy to design a measurably different fleet than it might otherwise have in the absence of naval limitations. Despite these limitations, the fleet that fought the Japanese to a standstill in 1942 was predominately composed of ships and concepts developed and fostered by the General Board prior to the outbreak of war.

The Battle of Dorking

Author : George Chesney
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Dorking written by George Chesney and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer is an 1871 novella by George Tomkyns Chesney, starting the genre of invasion literature and an important precursor of science fiction. Written just after the Prussian victory in the Franco-Prussian War, it describes an invasion of Britain by a German-speaking country referred to in oblique terms as The Other Power or The Enemy. Excerpt: "You ask me to tell you, my grandchildren, something about my share in the great events that happened fifty years ago. 'Tis sad work turning back to that bitter page in our history, but you may perhaps take profit in your new homes from the lesson it teaches. For us, in England, it came too late. And yet we had plenty of warnings if we had only made use of them."