by
Norman F. Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
The Crimea, the Boer War, the Somme, Tobruk, Pearl Harbor, the Bay of Pigs: these are just some of the milestones in a century and a half of military incompetence, of costly mishaps and tragic blunders. Are these simple accidents-as the bloody fool” theory has it-or are they inevitable?
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