Doomed to Repeat: The Lessons of History We Failed to Learn
By (Author) Bill Fawcett
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
William Morrow Paperbacks
26th March 2013
United States
General
Non Fiction
909
Paperback
336
Width 135mm, Height 202mm, Spine 20mm
244g
"Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it." And so we have. Time and again, mankind has faced down problems, but have often failed to take the hard-earned knowledge into the next battle. Doomed to Repeat is a collection of essays, edited by Bill Fawcett, that illuminates some of the problems we've faced repeatedly throughout history, including Islamic jihad, terrorism, military insurgencies, inflation and the devaluation of currency, financial disasters, ecological collapses, radical political minorities like the Nazis and Bolsheviks, and pandemics and epidemics like the Black Death. With more than 35 chapters of the Groundhog Days of world history, both infamous and obscure, Doomed to Repeat: The Lessons of History We've Failed to Learn is chock-full of trivia, history, and fascinating looks at the world's repeated mistakes.
Bill Fawcett is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including You Did What He is also the author and editor of three historical mystery series and two Oral Histories of the US Navy SEALS.