This is a followup to "How to Lose a Battle", more military blunder miscellany, from Ancient Greece to modern-day, including such ill-fated plans as; Xerxes' defeat in Greece at Marathon; Alexander's invasion of India; Napoloeon's occupation of Spain; the French humiliation by Prussia in 1870; Islanwanda, massacre of a British army by the spear armed Zulus; Operation Sea Lion, the no-start Nazi invasion of the U.K.; the loss of China by Chiang Kai Shek to Mao and the communists; and, many more.
- ISBN10 0061358444
- ISBN13 9780061358449
- Publish Date 1 September 2009 (first published 11 August 2009)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 May 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Imprint William Morrow Paperbacks
- Format Paperback
- Pages 368
- Language English