How to lose a war: more foolish plans and great military blunders
โ Scribed by Bill Fawcett
- Publisher
- HarperCollins e-books
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 227 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
From the Crusades to the modern age of chemical warfare and smart bombs, history is littered with truly disastrous military campaigns. -Sacre bleu! The French are humiliated by Prussia in 1870.> -spain's "invincible navy" breaks up off the coast of britain while attempting an invasion.> -the mau mau rebellion against the british in kenya shows us how not to run an insurgency.> -Chiang Kai-Shek's pathetic army fails to keep Mao's Communists from grabbing China.>>
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