Includes World War I, World War II, the Bay of Pigs, and the Gorbachev coup attempt.

" ... largely based on the TV series, Military blunders, c1999 Nugus/Martin Productions Limited"--Title page verso. Includes index.

Pt. I: Europe Loses its Way--the First World War from Sarajevo to Versailles -- The Assassination of the Archduke -- Disaster in the Dardanelles and Gallipoli -- The Sinking of the Lusitania -- British Battle Cruiser Disaster at Jutlan -- French Mutiny in the Trenches -- The Treaty of Versailles and the Seeds of World War II -- Pt. II: The World Goes to War Again--from the Russian Revolution to Pearl Harbor -- Stalin's Purges, Hitler's Putsch -- Blunders of Hitler's Luftwaffe -- German Hesitation at Dunkirk and Operation Sealion -- The Pilot Who Bombed London -- Hitler's Declaration of War on the U.S. -- Pt. III: World War II Gets Ugly--disasters at Sea and Death in Winter -- The Sinking of the Graf Spee -- Japanese bungling at Midway -- Naval night fighting at Guadalcanal -- The disastrous raid on Dieppe -- The bombing of Monte Cassino -- The last flight of the Lady Be Good -- Pt. V: Sending Hitler home, and Tojo, too-bringing World War II to an end -- Bomber Harris and the bombing of Berlin -- Operation cobra and friendly fire at Saint-Lõ -- A bridge to far -- The Battle of the Bulge -- The bomb plot to kill Hitler -- USS Indianapolis in a sea of sharks -- Pt. VI: Of Cold Wars and Holy Wars-superpower standoffs and Desert Storms -- Yalta and the seeds of the Cold War -- From Korea to Dien Bien Phu to the Tet offensive -- The Bay of Pigs -- The Spanish H-bomb crash: collision in the air -- The failed Gorbachew Coup -- Disaster in the desert: Operation Eagle Claw -- The invasion of Kuwait.