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Days of infamy
great military blunders of the 20th century
By Coffey, Michael
- ISBN
- 978-0-78686-556-7
- Publisher
- New York : Hyperion, c1999.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 1999
As the literary companion to the History Channel documentary series, this book is a superficial, erroneous, and somewhat revisionist view of a haphazard collection of nearly 50 historical events in the 20th century. Although the selections are characterized as military blunders, many are purely political miscalculations, like the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand (1914), the Treaty of Versailles (1919), the Yalta Conference (1945), and the abortive Gorba...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
