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During the Second World War, an American behavioural psychologist
working with pigeons discovered that the birds could be trained to
recognise an object and to peck at an image of it; when loaded into
the nose-cone of a missile, these pecks could be translated into
adjustments to the guidance fins, steering the projectile to its
target. Pigeon-Guided Missiles reveals this and other fascinating
tales of daring plans from history destined to change the world we
live in, yet which ended in failure, or even disaster. Some became
the victims of the eccentric figures behind them, others succumbed
to financial and political misfortune, and a few were just too far
ahead of their time. Discover why the great groundnut scheme cost
British taxpayers GBP49 million, why the bid to build Minerva, a
whole new country in the Pacific Ocean, sank, and why the first
Channel Tunnel (started in 1881, over a century before the one we
know today) hit a dead end.
Did you know that Winston Churchill narrowly avoided assassination
in the Second World War? Or that Prince Albert helped Britain avoid
war with the United States in the nineteenth century from his
deathbed? In this riveting read, James Moore and Paul Nero reveal
fifty of history's most dramatic narrow escapes. From wars that
were averted to invasions, revolutions and apocalyptic scenarios
that we avoided by the skin of our teeth, History's Narrowest
Escapes chronicles such stories as how a Soviet Army colonel
stopped the Third World War in 1983, and how Nelson's heroics at
The Battle of Trafalgar might never have happened if it hadn't been
for the quick thinking of a humble seaman eight years before. Full
of fascinating little-known facts, heroic acts, daring deeds and
stories of serendipity, this book reveals how our history could
have been very different... and possibly much worse!
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