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From the ancient Crusades to the modern age of chemical warfare and smart bombs, history is littered with horribly bad military ideas. This compendium of great military disasters and ill-advised battle plans highlights the worst military decisions throughout history and the world.

Features military blunder miscellany, from Ancient Greece to modern-day, including such ill-fated plans as: Xerxes' defeat in Greece at Marathon; Alexander's invasion of India; Napoloeon's occupation of Spain; the French humiliation by Prussia in 1870; and, Islanwanda, massacre of a British army by the spear armed Zulus.

Introduces the catastrophic missteps in World War II, including: Poland's lack of preparation for the Nazi invasion; Germany's failure to take Britain out of the war at Dunkirk; Russia playing Goliath to Finland's David; allied forces getting trapped for four months on the beaches of Anzio; and, Germany wasting its costly development of jet power.

Few events in American history loom as large or changed the country as profoundly as the conflict between the Union and Confederacy. This title chronicles the history of the many disastrous decisions made by both sides.

With more than 35 chapters of military disasters, both famous (infamous) and obscure, this title is chock of trivia, history, and looks at the world's greatest seafaring military defeats.