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History's Worst Decisions: And the People Who Made Them by Stephen Weir

• History's Worst Decisions: And the People Who Made Them
• Stephen Weir
• Page: 256
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9781435111745
• Publisher: Sterling

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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”—George Santayana, philosopher and writer History is a catalogue of errors, and History’s Worst Decisions shines a light on fifty of the biggest. Starting with Adam and Eve’s original blunder in eating the apple, author Stephen Weir takes you on a tour of catastrophes from antiquity to modern times. From the Trojan War to Gallipoli, from the Boston Tea Party to the Enron scandal, famous figures of ancient times such as Cleopatra and Nero rub shoulders with more modern culprits like Churchill and Mugabe. History’s Worst Decisions doesn’t just point the finger at individuals, the ...