From ancient times to the Bay of Pigs and the Falklands War, military history has been marked by misjudgments and incompetence. Some blunders have ended in tragedy, some in farce, and some in a mixture of both. The stories in this instructive collection capture those moments of staggering battlefield ineptitude, human folly, and sheer bad luck, and they will appeal to both military buffs and general readers.
