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100 1 _aSaul David
245 1 _aMilitary Blunders
260 _bCarroll & Graf
300 _a384 pages
520 _aSnatching defeat from the jaws of victory, such military disasters as Custer's Last Stand, Hitler's Stalingrad, the Second Crusade, the Battle of Antietam, the Somme Offensive, and the Fall of Singapore make for fascinating, appalling reading in the hands of military historian David Saul. Whether exposing incompetent officers, interfering politicians, or general ineptitude, Military Blunders provides both vivid narrative and in-depth analyses of how armed forces defeat themselves.
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