How to Lose a War: More Foolish Plans and Great Military Blunders

ISBN-13: 9780061358449 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 368 str.

Bill Fawcett

Opis

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.