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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: Aug 2009
Genre: History - Military
Retail Price: $15.99
Pages: 368
This is a followup to 'How to Lose a Battle', more military blunder miscellany, from Ancient Greece to modern-day, including such ill-fated plans as; Xerxes' defeat in Greece at Marathon; Alexander's invasion of India; Napoloeon's occupation of Spain; the French humiliation by Prussia in 1870; Islanwanda, massacre of a British army by the spear armed Zulus; Operation Sea Lion, the no-start Nazi invasion of the U.K.; the loss of China by Chiang Kai Shek to Mao and the communists; and, many more.