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Brasses Book Of Naval Blunders (Us)

Author: Regan, Geoffrey
Us Edition; Blunders Series; Paperback
Published: May 2000
Brassey's (UK) Ltd
ISBN: 1574882538

From ancient times to the Bay of Pigs and the Falklands War, military history has been marked as much by misjudgments and incompetence as by gallantry and glory. Such blunders have sometimes ended in tragedy. Sometimes, they turned into farce. Sometimes they have ended in triumph, despite all odds.In these two collections. Geoffrey Regan not only recounts thc staggering stones but also examines the kinds of problems that can lead to disaster -- from the Prussian general who believed he was pregnant with an elephant to the British cruiser HMS Trinidad that torpedoed itself in the Arctic in 1942.Regan (a military historian with no university or government affiliation) offers a catalog of naval incompetence from Roman times to the Gulf War. With approximately 50 illustrations, the book provides a humorous look at the follies, misjudgments, and bad luck of captains, fleet commanders, strategi

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