From the Crusades to the modern age of chemical warfare and smart bombs, history is littered with truly disastrous military campaigns. How to Lose a War chronicles some of the most remarkable strategic catastrophes and doomed military adventures of overreaching invaders and clueless defenders-whether the failure was a result of poor planning, miscalculations, monumental ego, or failed intelligence ...or just a really stupid idea to begin with. * Alexander invades India-and ends up in deep vindaloo.* Sacre bleu! The French are humiliated by Prussia in 1870.* spain's "invincible navy" breaks up off the coast of britain while attempting an invasion.* the mau mau rebellion against the british in kenya shows us how not to run an insurgency.* Chiang Kai-Shek's pathetic army fails to keep Mao's Communists from grabbing China.
Author Biography
Bill Fawcett is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including You Did What? He is also the author and editor of three historical mystery series and two Oral Histories of the US Navy SEALS.
