How Chance and Stupidity Have Changed History (eBook)

The Hinge Factor

Erik Durschmied (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
420 Seiten
Arcade Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-62872-644-2 (ISBN)

Infos

From the Trojan Horse to a photograph snapped in Vietnam, world history has been shaped as much by chance and error as by courage and heroism. Despite impossible odds, invincible armies fall in bitter defeat to weaker opponents. How and why does this happen? What decides the fate of battle? In this fascinating book, Erik Durschmied takes us through the major conflicts of historyfrom Agincourt to the Civil War, from Crimea to the Gulf Warand reveals how, in war, it is the improbable and the inconceivable that determine events.Writing with the style and flair that made him an award-winning war correspondent, Durschmied explores the fistful of nails that could have won Waterloo for Napoleon; the barrel of schnapps that proved disastrous for an Austrian emperor; and the three cigars that changes the course of Antietam; and many other instances when chance decided historys path. Conflicts are decided by the caprice of weather, erroneous intelligence, unlikely heroism, strange coincidence, or individual incompetencein short, by the unpredictable hinge factor.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Autor

Erik Durschmied was born in Vienna in 1930 and emigrated to Canada after World War II. A television war correspondent for the BBC and CBS, he has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Belfast, Beirut, Chile, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, and Vietnam, and won numerous awards for his work. He lives in Paris and Provence with his family.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.7.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 1184 • 1415 • 1788 • 1914 • Agincourt • America • Antietam • Balaclava • battle strategy • Berlin • books on agincourt • books on balaclava • books on battle strategies • books on berlin • books on cigars books on weinberg • books on commanders • books on correspondents • books on east germanies • books on fact • books on generals • books on gulves • books on khomeini • books on military histories • books on nails • books on naval military histories • books on objectives • books on opponents • books on ospreys • books on reza • books on schnapps • books on shah • books on stupidities • books on trevelyan • books on trojans • books on troys • books on war correspondents • books on waterloo books on what-ifs • books on weather events • cigars • commanders • correspondent • East Germany • Factors • Generals • German Army • Germany • Gulf • Hattin • Japan • Khomeini • military history • Moscow • Nails • najaf • naval military history • objectives • Opponents • Osprey • Reza • samsonov • Schabowski • Schnapps • Shah • stupidity • Tanga • trevelyan • Trojan • Troy • War Correspondents • Waterloo • weather events • Weinberg • what-if
• ISBN-10: 1-62872-644-X / 162872644X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62872-644-2 / 9781628726442