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How to Lose a Battle: Foolish Plans and Great Military Blunders

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How to Lose a Battle: Foolish Plans and Great Military Blunders

Bill Fawcett, "How to Lose a Battle: Foolish Plans and Great Military Blunders"
Harper Paperbacks | 2006 | ISBN: 0060760249 | 336 pages | PDF | 1 MB

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This surprisingly amusing anthology could be subtitled Monuments to Stupidity. Fawcett is the editor of Hunters and Shooters (1995) and has also written science-fiction and mystery novels. He and several other writers have written a series of essays dissecting some of the greatest military disasters, from antiquity to the twentieth century. Some of these fiascos are probably well known even to laypersons, including Lee's blunders at Gettysburg and Hitler's insistence on fighting to the death at Stalingrad. But some of the more obscure episodes are particularly informative and enjoyable (if one allows the passage of time to soften the horror of human carnage). At Arbela, the Persian emperor Darius allowed his personal cowardice to deliver a victory to the vastly outnumbered forces of Alexander the Great. At San Jacinto, the Mexican Santa Anna (the self-styled Napoleon of the West) saw his sleeping army slaughtered, guaranteeing the loss of Texas. The writers approach their subjects with a healthy dose of sarcasm and even humor. This book will appeal to both general readers and amateur military historians.







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