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245 10 $aHistory's worst decisions and the people who made them /$cStephen Weir.
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500 $aOriginally published: as Encyclopedia idiotica. Hauppauge, N.Y.: Barron's, 2005. London: New Holland, 2006.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. In the Beginning: Adam and Eve -- 2. Menelaus and His Lost Wife -- 3. Hannibal and the Avalanche -- 4. Cleopatra's Men -- 5. Nero and the Burning of Rome -- 6. Erik the Red's Dream Island: The First Real-Estate Scam -- 7. Pope Sylvester II and the End of the World -- 8. Pope Alexander III and the Search for Prester John -- 9. George Podiebrad, the Last Bohemian, and World Peace -- 10. Moctezuma and the Returning God -- 11. Johan de Witt, New Amsterdam and Pulau Run: The Worst Deal Ever Made -- 12. Lord North and George III's Tea Party -- 13. Napoleon, the March to Russia -- and Frankenstein -- 14. The War Office Versus the Lady with the Lamp: Disease in the Crimea -- 15. The War Office Versus the Indian Army: Mutiny and Beef Fat -- 16. Thomas Austin's Rabbits -- 17. General Custer and Little Bighorn -- 18. King Leopold and the Scramble for Africa -- 19. Nicholas, Alexandra and the Mad Monk -- 20. Ismay's Lifeboats -- Contents note continued: 21. Gavrilo Princip's Deli Sandwich: The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand -- 22. Winston Churchill and the Disaster at Gallipoli -- 23. Trench Warfare, General Haig and the Battle of the Somme -- 24. Maginot's Line -- 25. Winston Churchill Strikes Again: The Map of Iraq -- 26. Stalin and the Great Purge -- 27. Shenton Thomas's Little Men and the Fall of Singapore -- 28. Suhrawardy, Partition and the Bengal Rice Famine -- 29. Wakefield's Nuts -- 30. Mohammed Mossadegh, Time's Man of the Year, and Democracy in Iran -- 31. The British Nuclear Legacy: The Black Mist of Maralinga -- 32. Sir Anthony Eden, Suez and Speed -- 33. Grunenthal's Outstandingly Safe Drug: Thalidomide -- 34. Vaccines, AIDS and the Chimps of the Congo -- 35. Mao and the Great Leap Forward -- 36. Robert McNamara and Agent Orange -- 37. Murphy's Law and the Missing Hyphen -- 38. Nauru's Bird Droppings -- 39. Drinking Jim Jones's Kool-Aid: The Jonestown Suicides -- 40. Union Carbide's Cost Cutting: Bhopal -- Contents note continued: 41. Robert Maxwell and the Mirror Pensioners -- 42. The Soviet Nuclear Legacy: Chernobyl -- 43. Ahmed Badeeb, Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden and the CIA -- 44. Gerald Ratner's `Crap' -- 45. The Bangladesh Floods and the Destruction of the Himalayan Rainforest -- 46. Lockheed Martin, Columbine and the Metric System -- 47. The Y2K that Never Came -- 48. Robert Mugabe's Great Zimbabwe Land Grab -- 49. Wall Street, Enron and Those Who Believed -- 50. Why a Ten-Year-Old British Girl Knew More than the Thai Government: The Boxing Day Tsunami.
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