Great Naval Blunders (Inbunden)
avGeoffrey Regan
ISBN: 9780233003504 - UTGIVEN: 201208Who was responsible for the design of the Admiral Popov, the circular Russian battleship that wouldn't steer straight? Why did Lord Anson set out to circumnavigate the world with a crew of Chelsea pensioners? And how did the British cruiser HMS Trinidad manage to torpedo itself in the Arctic? The an[...]
Great Military Blunders (Inbunden)
avGeoffrey Regan
ISBN: 9780233003511 - UTGIVEN: 201205From ancient times to the Bay of Pigs and the Falklands War, military history has been marked as much by misjudgements and incompetence as by gallantry and glory. Such blunders have sometimes ended in tragedy, sometimes in farce - such as the English troops, supposedly marching on Cadiz in 1625, who[...]
Päin mäntyä (Häftad)
avGeoffrey Regan
ISBN: 9789512065547 - UTGIVEN: 2009Tämä on sekä huvittava että järkyttävä kirja sotilaallisista tunaroinneista. Väärinarvioinnit ja kyvyttömyys ovat kulkeneet sotahistoriassa rinta rinnan uljuuden ja kunnian kanssa, aikojen alusta Sikojen lahden ja Falklandin sodan tapahtumiin asti."Tarkoitukseni ei ole tehdä pilkkaa sotil[...]
