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Military Blunders  Large Print 16pt
Author : Saul David
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
Language : English
Release Date : 01 October 2013
ISBN : 1459672763
Pages : 624 pages
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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.

Military Blunders  Large Print 16pt

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

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