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This lively and entertaining collection of mishaps from the Classical Era to the Cold War period is drawn from an impressively wide range of fields of human activity -- politics, religion, economics, technology, medicine and many more.
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Ranging from classical Greece and Rome to the Cold War era, the author takes readers on a lively tour of historical mishaps and miscalculations, from the Dutch prince who set up his own death to the Romanian dictator who made his dog a colonel in the army. Original.
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