Operation Market Garden: A Bridge Too Far—1944
Petersburg: Union Digs Its Own Grave—1864
Red Cliffs: Cao Cao’s Bad Day—208 A.D.
Gallipoli: Churchill Dooms Allied Assault—1915
Russia: Napoleon Retreats in the Snow—1812
World War II: Royal Navy Goes Down—1941–42
Adwa: Italy’s Fiasco in Ethiopia—1896
The Great Blunders: Four Paths to Failure
Dieppe Raid: Catastrophe on the Beach—1942
Syracuse: Athens’s Second Front—413 B.C.
Colenso: The Second Boer War—1899
Culloden: The Bonnie Prince Blunders—1746
Cartagena: High Walls, Short Ladders—1741
Afghanistan: Khyber Pass Death Trap—1842
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