{"product_id":"9781854879189-secondhand-military-blunders","title":"Military Blunders","description":"A professional military historian analyzes the most spectacular cock-ups in military history caused by everything from incompetent generals to interfering politicians, hopeless planning and misplaced confidence. This graphic account has a great deal to say about the psychology of military incompetence and the reasons even the most well-oiled military machines inflict disaster upon themselves. It covers more than 30 engagements, beginning in AD9 with the massacre of Varus and his legions in the Black Forest; including nightmares of the Victorian Age such as the Retreat from Kabul; crushing reverses of two World Wars such as the Siege of Kut, Mussolini's invasion of Egypt and the fall of Singapore; many fiascos such as the Second Crusade, Colenso and the Yalu River; and continuing right up to the present with Goose Green in the Falklands and the Bravo Two Zero SAS patrol in the Gulf War.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50534159417563,"sku":"9781854879189-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/c5c527b0-b7f3-40f2-a597-f501c3ecba30.jpg?v=1790692467","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781854879189-secondhand-military-blunders","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}