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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.
Nat Tate, an imaginary artist about whom a biography was published in 1998 by William Boyd intended to temporarily fool the art world. The Taxil hoax by Léo Taxil, poking fun at the Roman Catholic Church's attitude toward Freemasonry. The avant-garde "music" of the fictitious Piotr Zak.
During the occupation of Denmark by the Nazis during World War II, King Christian X of Denmark did not thwart Nazi attempts to identify Jews by wearing a yellow star himself. Jews in Denmark were never forced to wear the Star of David. The Danish resistance did help most Jews flee the country before the end of the war. [76]
White, a librarian at the federal courthouse in Richmond, Virginia, wrote the book in 2011. [1] White previously administered the Historical Atlas of the 20th Century on his own website, and became interested in the subject due to constant arguments in cyberspace about who was actually responsible for various atrocities throughout history. [2]
It was the largest surrender of Commonwealth troops in history and destroyed the linchpin of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command. Although the Japanese invasion force was half of the size of the defending force, Japanese air attacks on the city and lack of water proved decisive.
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 ...
Throughout history, printers' errors, unconventional translations [b] and translation mistakes have appeared in a number of published Bibles. Bibles with features considered to be erroneous are known as Bible errata , and were often destroyed or suppressed due to their contents being considered heretical by some.
The New York Times was criticized for the work of reporter Walter Duranty, who served as its Moscow bureau chief from 1922 through 1936.Duranty wrote a series of stories in 1931 on the Soviet Union and won a Pulitzer Prize for his work at that time; however, he has been criticized for his denial of widespread famine, most particularly the Holodomor, the Ukraine famine in the 1930s.