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(Paperback)

By: Bill Fawcett

ISBN: 9780425236659
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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(Paperback)

By: Bill Fawcett

ISBN: 9781101987049
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
Publisher: New American Library
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(Paperback)

By: Bill Fawcett

ISBN: 9780425230138
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2009
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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(Paperback)

By: Bill Fawcett

ISBN: 9780425257364
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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(Paperback)

By: Bill Fawcett

ISBN: 9780671765552
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1991
Publisher: Atria Books
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(Paperback)

By: Bill Fawcett

ISBN: 9780062069061
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Includes a collection of essays that illuminate those problems we've faced over and over and the common threads that have stumped us for centuries. With more than 35 chapters of the Groundhog Days of world history, both infamous and obscure, this book is full of trivia, history, and looks at the world's repeated mistakes.


(Paperback)

By: Bill Fawcett

ISBN: 9780060760243
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Bill Fawcett

ISBN: 9780062069092
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Bill Fawcett

ISBN: 9780061807312
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Bill Fawcett

ISBN: 9780061358432
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Includes military, scientific, commercial, and infrastructure disasters such as: The Lead water pipes of Rome; Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse; Edison's electrical folly; Betamax; Concorde crash; Hubble - A $2 billion telescope that didn't work; the Mars probe failures due to simple math mistakes; Cold Fusion; and, Ford Pinto.


(Paperback)

By: Bill Fawcett

ISBN: 9780380807710
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2000
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Paperback)

By: Bill Fawcett

ISBN: 9780061130502
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Throughout history, there have been frauds, deceptions, propaganda, and trickery from governments, corporations, historians, braggarts, and everyone in between. Written in a fun, irreverent style, this book chronicles the vast history of these falsities.