An engrossing and fact-filled collection of the great screwups
of the Great War
Never had there been a war on the scale of World War II--a
global conflict so widespread and involving so many different
military organizations from such a diverse pool of combatant
countries that the consequences of every decision, both the
brilliant and the bad, were multiplied one hundredfold. Bill
Fawcett, popular chronicler of monumental military mistakes and
truly boneheaded battlefield blunders now looks closely at the
historic errors that ultimately determined the course of post-WWII
history.
A cornucopia of catastrophic missteps, including: An unprepared
Poland is caught napping as the Nazis storm in virtually unopposed
Germany misses a golden opportunity to take Britain out of the war
at Dunkirk Russia plays Goliath to Finland's David Four valuable
months are wasted as Allied forces sit trapped on the beaches of
Anzio Germany squanders its costly development of jet powerThe
secret 1942 battle Marshal Zhukov lost, along with half a million
soldiersBattles lost that should have been won, including Moscow,
Stalingrad, and D-Day
General
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