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Perslerle müzakere eden Atina elcileri, caresizlikten imzaladiklari metnin ne anlama geldigini incelemis olsalardi, bunun günümüze etkileri olur muyduBir halefi belirlemesi istendiginde, Büyük Iskender imparatorlugunun en güclüye gitmesi gerektigini ilan etti Ama biraz daha spesifik olsaydi, rakip gruplar savasa girer miydiEger Adolf Hitler Viyana Sanat Akademisine kabul edilip dört yil egitim görebilseydi, neler olurduBill Fawcettin Tarihin A...

Every four years Americans go to the polls to elect a leader, someone serious, distinguished, respectable, with perfect sobriety and moral standing who will serve as a paragon for the rest of us. But presidents and their families are people too-with quirks and character flaws like everyone else . . . and they have plenty of skeletons rattling around in their closets. Oval Office Oddities is a grand compendium of fascinating, sometimes embarras...

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Etrafiniza bir bakin... Dünyanin bu halde olmasinin amaclanmis oldugunu mu düsünüyorsunuz Tarih, liderlerin dikkatli planlamalarinin ürünü olmaktan cok, onlarin ve baskalarinin yaptigi hatalardan meydana gelir. Ve tarihi yapan falsolar, tökezlemeler, hatali adimlar, ister savas alaninda ister yatak odasinda olsun, daima ilginc ve eglencelidir...Vikingler daha 1001 yilinda Amerikaya gitmisler, hatta kitaya verimli topraklar anlamina gelen Vinla...

Full of trivia, history, and fascinating examinations of some of the world's greatest seafaring military defeats.

From the Crusades to the modern age of chemical warfare and smart bombs, history is littered with truly disastrous military campaigns. "How to Lose a War" chronicles some of the most remarkable strategic catastrophes and doomed military adventures of overreaching invaders and clueless defenders--whether the failure was a result of poor planning, miscalculations, monumental ego, or failed intelligence . . . or just a really stupid idea to begin...

Part of a naval tradition that goes back to World War II, the first SEAL teams were commissioned in 1962. As underwater demolition experts, skilled parachutists, and specialists in a host of other areas, their first proving ground was Vietnam. In Hunters and Shooters, 15 SEALs tell their incredible and heroic stories.

Just in time for the 2008 primaries comes this fun and fascinating collection of all things presidential. Featuring hundreds of strange and wonderful facts, this collection contains information on presidential gaffes, love lives, and odd habits. Illustrated.

Throughout history, there have been frauds, deceptions, propaganda, and trickery from governments, corporations, historians, braggarts, and everyone in between. Written in a fun, irreverent style, this book chronicles the vast history of these falsities.

A remarkable compendium of the worst military decisions and the men who made them The annals of history are littered with horribly bad military leaders. These combat incompetents found amazing ways to ensure their army's defeat. Whether it was a lack of proper planning, miscalculation, ego, bad luck, or just plain stupidity, certain wartime stratagems should never have left the drawing board. Written with wit, intelligence, and eminent readabi...

Includes military, scientific, commercial, and infrastructure disasters such as: The Lead water pipes of Rome, Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse, Edison's electrical folly, Betamax, Concorde crash, Hubble - A $2 billion telescope that didn't work, the Mars probe failures due to simple math mistakes, Cold Fusion, and, Ford Pinto.

An engrossing and fact-filled collection of the great screwups of the Great WarNever had there been a war on the scale of World War II—a global conflict so widespread and involving so many different military organizations from such a diverse pool of combatant countries that the consequences of every decision, both the brilliant and the bad, were multiplied one hundredfold. Bill Fawcett, popular chronicler of monumental military mistakes and tr...

History has never been more fun than it is in this fact-filled compendium of historical fiascos and embarrassingly bad ideas.

Hindsight hurts. * The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act, having the American colonies pay for their own defense-which instead starts a revolution. * In 1929, President Herbert Hoover decides to let the economy fix itself…and the Great Depression gets greater. * Nixon tapes everything he says in the Oval Office, believing it will all be of great historical value. He turns out to be right when those same tapes cost him his presidency. * C...

After the extinction asteroid does not strike Earth, the dinosaurs keep evolving - but so do the mammals. We mammals have achieved humanlike shapes, but now it's cold-blooded, magic-using reptiles against the hot-blooded, hot-tempered descendants of cats.

Perhaps no living author of imaginative fiction has earned the awards, accolades, respect, and literary reputation of Gene Wolfe. His prose has been called subtle and brilliant, inspiring not just lovers of fantasy and science fiction, but readers of every stripe, transcending genre and defying preconceptions.In this volume, a select group of Wolfe's fellow authors pay tribute to the award-winning creator of The Book of the New Sun, The Fifth ...

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