Military Blunders

The quintessential book for history buffslively, informative inside stories on more than 50 of the most disastrous military mishaps to occur in the past 100 yearsnow in paperback! From the assassination of the Archduke, through Hitlers rise and demise, to Saddam Husseins doomed invasion of KuwaitMilitary Blunders is a blow-by-blow account of this centurys most ill-fated military events. What were they and why did they happen?

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

xi

Mike Wallace

Part I EUROPE LOSES ITS WAY---THE FIRST WORLD WAR FROM SARAJEVO TO VERSAILLES

1

(48)

The Assassination of the Archduke

3

(6)

Disaster in the Dardanelles and Gallipoli

9

(10)

The Sinking of the Lusitania

19

(6)

British Battle Cruiser Disaster at Jutland

25

(8)

French Mutiny in the Trenches

33

(7)

The Treaty of Versailles and the Seeds of World War II

40

(9)

Part II THE WORLD GOES TO WAR AGAIN---FROM THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION TO PEARL HARBOR

49

(40)

Stalin's Purges, Hitler's Putsch

51

(7)

Blunders of Hitler's Luftwaffe

58

(7)

German Hesitation at Dunkirk and Operation Sealion

65

(8)

The Pilot Who Bombed London

73

(6)

Hitler's Declaration of War on the U.S.

79

(10)

Part III WORLD WAR II DEEPENS---DISASTERS AT SEA AND DEATH IN WINTER

89

(30)

The Sinking of the Graf Spee

91

(8)

The Gray Ghost of the Queen Mary

99

(4)

The Scattering of Convoy PQ17

103

(7)

Death at Stalingrad: The German Army Gets Trapped

110

(9)

Part IV THE TURNING OF THE TIDE IN WORLD WAR II---FROM THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY TO THE North African Desert

119

(40)

The Sinking of Force Z

121

(8)

Japanese Bungling at Midway

129

(6)

Naval Night Fighting at Guadalcanal

135

(6)

The Disastrous Raid on Dieppe

141

(8)

The Bombing of Monte Cassino

149

(4)

The Last Flight of the Lady Be Good

153

(6)

Part V BRINGING WORLD WAR II TO AN END

159

(42)

Bomber Harris and the Bombing of Berlin

161

(6)

Operation Cobra and Friendly Fire at Saint-Lo

167

(6)

A Bridge Too Far

173

(7)

The Battle of the Bulge

180

(7)

The Bomb Plot to Kill Hitler

187

(7)

USS Indianapolis in a Sea of Sharks

194

(7)

Part VI OF COLD WARS AND HOLY WARS---SUPERPOWER STANDOFFS AND DESERT STORMS

201

(68)

Yalta and the Seeds of the Cold War

203

(13)

From Korea to Dien Bien Phu to the Tet Offensive

216

(10)

The Bay of Pigs

226

(10)

The Spanish H-Bomb Crash: Collision in the Air

236

(7)

The Failed Gorbachev Coup

243

(10)

Disaster in the Desert: Operation Eagle Claw

253

(7)

The Invasion of Kuwait

260

(9)

Index

269

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