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Great Blunders Of World War II is a documentary series looking at some of the worst errors of World War II that affected the course of history. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They are the decisions that have gone down in infamy, the battles determined not by bravery and brilliance but by incompetence and arrogance.
Chapter 3, "The Wars of Religion", reports a trial against the woodworms in a church, as they have caused the building to become unstable. Chapter 4, "The Survivor", is set in a world in which the Chernobyl disaster was "the first big accident". Journalists report that the world is on the brink of nuclear war.
The full name of the Nazi Party was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers' Party), and members referred to themselves as Nationalsozialisten (National Socialists) or Parteigenossen (party comrades). The term "Nazi" was in use prior to the rise of the Nazis as a colloquial and derogatory word for a ...
The Cambridge World History. Volume 1: Introducing World History, to 10,000 BCE, edited by David Christian. The Cambridge World History is a seven volume history of the world in nine books published by Cambridge University Press in 2015. The editor in chief is Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks. The history takes a comparativist approach.
Silverberg also acknowledged that this was a list of battles that had affected Western history and did not include battles from other parts of history. In 1964, American historian Lt. Col. Joseph B. Mitchell published Twenty Decisive Battles of the World, an update of Creasy's list with five additions: The Vicksburg Campaign, 1863.
Included in the book at the introduction to each chapter is an envelope that holds facsimiles of relevant evidence: John Wilkes Booth's alleged unsigned will, a map of the Vatican, John F. Kennedy's death certificate. It is a companion to the show Brad Meltzer's Decoded on History Channel. According to WorldCat, the book is in 896 libraries. [1]
Typos can do more than damage the credibility of a publication. Penguin books in Australia recently had to reprint 7,000 copies of a now-collectible book because one of the recipes called for ...
The British editions of The World Crisis sold 80,551 copies, and brought him £58,846 from royalties which were between 30% and 33%. He purchased his house "Chartwell" in 1922 from £20,000 of The World Crisis royalties and a small legacy from a cousin Lord Herbert Vane-Tempest. "Chartwell" was purchased for £5,000, but with dry rot the ...