The hinge factor

how chance and stupidity have changed history

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The hinge factor

how chance and stupidity have changed history

1st U.S. ed.
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Publisher
Arcade
Language
English
Pages
394

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Cover of: The Hinge Factor
The Hinge Factor: How Chance and Stupidity Have Changed History
April 2, 2001, Arcade Publishing
Paperback in English
Cover of: The hinge factor
The hinge factor: how chance and stupidity have changed history
2000, Arcade
in English - 1st U.S. ed.
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The hinge factor: how chance and stupidity have changed history
1999, Hodder & Stoughton
in English
Cover of: The Hinge Factor
The Hinge Factor
October 7, 1999, Coronet Books
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Table of Contents

A wooden horse : Troy, 1184 BC
The loss of the True Cross : the Horns of Hattin, 4 July 1187
A rabble with bare feat : Agincourt, 25 October 1415
A barrel of schnapps : Karansebes, 20 September 1788
A fistful of nails : Waterloo, 18 June 1815
The fourth order : Balaclava, 25 October 1854
Three cigars : Antietam, 17 September 1862
Two counts and one prince : Königgrätz, 3 July 1866
A fair fight : Spioen Kop, 24 January 1900
A slap on the face : Tannenberg, 28 August 1914
The sting of a bee : Tanga, 5 November 1914
Der Halte Befehl : France, 21 May 1940
A shark on the loose : North Atlantic, 27 May 1941
The Sorge enigma : Moscow, 6 December 1941
One man's death : Vietnam, 31 January 1968
And the Wall came tumbling down : Berlin, 9 November 1989
The zero factor : the Gulf, 17 January 1991.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-384) and index.

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New York
Genre
Miscellanea.

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Dewey Decimal Class
900
Library of Congress
D24 .D87 2000

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xvii, 394 p. :
Number of pages
394

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OL60117M
Internet Archive
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1559705159
LCCN
99089506
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101073
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