The World's Greatest Mistakes - Nigel Blundell

Much like 'The Worlds Greatest Blunders', 'The World's Greatest Mistakes' is a collection of tales of folly and downright bad luck, and includes stories of misguided business moves (a team of experts who dismissed one of the world's richest gem fields in South Africa as containing nothing more that dried ostrich droppings), ill-fated voyages (the Titanic, Baron Von Richthoven's ill-fated last flight), Military errors (Custer's last stand, the famous charge of the light brigade, the decision of American military officials to ignore warnings that an attack on Peal Harbour was immanent) and beurocratic errors, such as the one that left the English/Scottish border town of ...  Read the complete review