Encyclopedia Idiotica: History's Worst Decisions And the People Who Made Them

The 64 A.D. burning of Rome during the reign of Nero . . . Winston Churchill's ill-conceived and disastrous World War I plan to invade Turkey at Gallipoli . . . the Maginot Line, built in France in 1929-34 in a foolhardy effort to prevent the feared German invasion . . . the 1950s thalidomide pharmaceutical disaster that resulted in at least 20,000 babies born with deformities . . . the 1989-91 misappropriation of company funds by publishing executive Robert Maxwell, and the collapse of his financial empire . . . the Enron scandal of 2000 that brought down a yet larger business empire. Chronicled in these pages are stories of corporate chicanery, poor military decisions, engineering disasters, diplomatic blunders, and other appalling, large-scale mistakes that resulted in ruin and misery for countless innocent bystanders. Here are baleful tales motivated by false hope, anger, greed, pride, lust, and many other instances of erratic human behavior. A selection of approximately 50 disastrous decisions are presented, each grim account summarized in a report of roughly a half-dozen pages and enhanced with sidebars and thumbnail-sized cartoon-style illustrations. Each account opens with its cast of characters, then sets the story's background before reporting the grim details and concluding with the unhappy moral. Here is a page-turner of a book that recounts some of history's most dramatic-but also catastrophic-moments.

Encyclopedia Idiotica: History's Worst Decisions And The People Who Made Them

History

Stephen Weir

Asia

B E S Pub Co

Historys Worst Decisions

Unknown

Non-Fiction; Beautifully-illustrated. History's worst decisions and the people who made them. This book is a "must read" for any lover of, or teacher of, history.

History's Worst Decisions and the People Who Made Them, Illustrated Edition

Metro_Books

The Worst Decisions...Ever

Quid Publishing

History's Worst Decisions: An Encyclopedia Idiotica

Reference

Zebra Press

Mankind's past is strewn with mistakes - colossal blunders driven by virtue as often as vice. The unlucky people in this book didn't always set out to cause the mayhem they did, but somehow things just went wrong. Really wrong. This new color edition of "History's Worst Decisions" is an entertaining look at some truly monumental mishaps, from Adam and Eve's decision to eat the apple and Nero's burning down of his own city, to the destruction of the Himalayan rain forest and the billions of dollars wasted on the Y2K scare. A compendium of cock-ups, "History's Worst Decisions" provides a clear warning - it's all too easy to go down in history as an idiot!

History's Worst Decisions and the People Who Made Them (IMM Lifestyle Books)

New Holland Publishers, Ltd.

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