Military Errors of World War Two

by Kenneth Macksey

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Delay, failure, and, ultimately, defeat: those were the results of these 16 crucial mistakes by military and political leaders. From Hitler's postponement of the invasion of Britain, to ineptitude in the Western desert, from errors in the Battle of the Atlantic to the Japanese mistakes in the Pacific, see how an entire army's downfall can hinge on one momentous decision. A telling account of poor judgment--and of greed, arrogance, complacency, and misused manpower, even by those who tasted show more victory elsewhere. show less

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This book did not start well for me. Tightly bound, I do not like the fussy typeface and the use of the European number seven - 7 with a cross bar. Poor proof reading means there are already too many typographical errors in the first chapters.

Once I got over this disappointment, I then found another - more evidence of poor editing and proof reading. Some of the sentences are far too long, such that the reader has to go back over the same words having lost one's way - sentences that are six or seven lines long are not uncommon, it seems, for this writer!

Anyway, the first chapter, entitled Events Before 1940, was interesting. Trying to ignore long sentences, typeface and typesetting errors, I enjoyed the book and learned a fair amount.
5 stars - a no brainer; the decision to give it 5 stars m, not the book😀

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Kenneth Macksey MC was commissioned into the Royal Tank Regiment during the Second World War and has enjoyed a long and successful career as a military historian

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Original title
Military errors of World War Two
Important events
World War II (1939 | 1945); Battle of the Atlantic (1939 | 1945); World War II, Pacific Theater (1941-12-07 | 1945-09-02)

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History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
940.54History & geographyHistory of EuropeHistory of Europe1918-Military history of World War II
LCC
D744 .M18History of Europe, Asia, Africa and OceaniaHistory (General)World War II (1939-1945)
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5 — English, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Spanish
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