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FROM THE PAST Book Two of the Creepers Trilogy Bobby's brothers are dead, along with his surrogate father and the rest of his old life. The Settlement lies in ruins. Colorado's snow-covered mountains hold nothing but old horror. If he's going to make a life with his new wife and child, he has to move on. The Creepers are never far, and he can feel their hunger. Baylor and his steam train offer Bobby a way forward, a genuine shot at a future. But he is not the only child born in the west, and the past has other ideas. The warlord Moya is desperate to forge a new world in her own image. She has...

The Crimea, the Boer War, the Somme, Tobruk, Pearl Harbor, the Bay of Pigs: these are just some of the milestones in a century of military incompetence, of costly mishaps and tragic blunders. Are these simple accidents--as the "bloody fool" theory has it--or are they inevitable?

The psychologist Norman F. Dixon argues that there is a pattern to inept generalship, and locates this pattern within the very act of creating armies in the first place, which in his view produces a levelling down of human capability that encourages the mediocre and limits the gifted. In this light, successful...

This text surveys 100 years of military inefficiency from the Crimean War, through the Boer conflict, to the disastrous campaigns of the First World War and the calamities of the Second. It examines the social psychology of military organizations, provides case studies of individual commanders and indentifies an alarming pattern in the causes of military disaster.