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It Looked Good on Paper: Bizarre Inventions, Design Disasters, and Engineering Follies

Bill Fawcett

Includes military, scientific, commercial, and infrastructure disasters such as: The Lead water pipes of Rome; Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse; Edison’s electrical folly; Betamax; Concorde crash; Hubble - A $2 billion…

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Hunters & Shooters: An Oral History of the U.S. Navy SEALs in Vietnam

Bill Fawcett

Part of a naval tradition that goes back to World War II, the first SEAL teams were commissioned in 1962. As underwater demolition experts, skilled parachutists, and specialists in a…

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You Did What?: Mad Plans and Great Historical Disasters

Bill Fawcett

Presents a fascinating compilation of historical disasters, bad ideas, follies, and poor decisions, including the Trojan Horse, the construction of a community on Love Canal, the introduction of rabbits to…

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Oval Office Oddities

Bill Fawcett

Every four years Americans go to the polls to elect a leader, someone serious, distinguished, respectable, with perfect sobriety and moral standing who will serve as a paragon for the…

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How to Lose a War: More Foolish Plans and Great Military Blunders

Bill Fawcett

Features 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…

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The Battle for Azeroth: Adventure, Alliance, And Addiction Insights into the World of Warcraft

Aimed at dedicated fans of the role-playing game World of Warcraft, this dynamic collection of essays explores the undying fascination with a game that is a welcome escape from reality…

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You Said What?: Lies and Propaganda Throughout History

Bill Fawcett

Throughout history, there have been frauds, deceptions, propaganda, and trickery from governments, corporations, historians, braggarts, and everyone in between. Written in a fun, irreverent style, this book chronicles the vast…

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How to Lose the Civil War: Military Mistakes of the War Between the States

Bill Fawcett

Few events in American history loom as large or changed the country as profoundly as the conflict between the Union and Confederacy. This title chronicles the history of the many…

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How to Lose a Battle: Foolish Plans and Great Military Blunders

Bill Fawcett

From the ancient Crusades to the modern age of chemical warfare and smart bombs, history is littered with horribly bad military ideas. This compendium of great military disasters and ill-advised…

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How to Lose WWII: Bad Mistakes of the Good War

Bill Fawcett

Introduces the catastrophic missteps in World War II, including: Poland’s lack of preparation for the Nazi invasion; Germany’s failure to take Britain out of the war at Dunkirk; Russia playing…

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Doomed to Repeat: The Lessons of History We Failed to Learn

Bill Fawcett

Includes a collection of essays that illuminate those problems we’ve faced over and over and the common threads that have stumped us for centuries. With more than 35 chapters of…

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How to Lose a War at Sea: Foolish Plans and Great Naval Blunders

Bill Fawcett

With more than 35 chapters of military disasters, both famous (infamous) and obscure, this title is chock of trivia, history, and looks at the world’s greatest seafaring military defeats.

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100 Mistakes that Changed History: Backfires and Blunders That Collapsed Empires, Crashed Economies, and Altered the Course of Our World

Bill Fawcett

Collected in one volume, here are backfires and blunders that collapsed empires, crashed economies, and altered the course of the world.

From the Maginot Line to the Cuban Missile Crisis…

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Trust Me, I Know What I’m Doing: 100 More Mistakes That Lost Elections, Ended Empires, and Made the World What It Is Today

Bill Fawcett

Hindsight hurts.

The British Parliament passes the Townshend Acts, making the American colonies pay for their own defense -

which instead starts a revolution. In 1929, President Herbert Hoover decides…

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Contact: Kinship War: Book One

Doug Dandridge

KINSHIP WAR: CONTACT is well written and an extremely well-thought-through, complex military SF novel with enough action for any reader. –David Drake (Bestselling author of Hammer’s Slammers) Kinship Wars: Contact…

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UFO Cover-up: What the Government Won’t Say

Bill Fawcett,Lawrence Fawcett,Barry Greenwood

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Shadows of the New Sun

Bill Fawcett,J E Mooney

Perhaps no living author of imaginative fiction has earned the awards, accolades, respect, and literary reputation of Gene Wolfe. In this volume, a select group of Wolfe’s fellow authors pay…

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Pros and Cons

Jody Lynn Nye,Bill Fawcett

Attending your first convention as a professional writer? Don’t know what opportunities are out there for you? How do you get invited? How do you approach editors? How do you…

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea

Bill Fawcett,William R Forstchen

Throughout the annals of history, the best of intentions-and sometimes the worst-have set in motion events with a vastly different outcome than originally intended. In this entertaining, fact-filled chronicle, William…

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101 Stumbles in the March of History: What If the Great Mistakes in War, Government, Industry, and Economics Were Not Made?

Bill Fawcett

Did I do that?!When asked to name a successor, Alexander the Great declared that his empire should go to the strongest. But would rival factions have descended into war if…

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Here Be Dragons: Tales of Dragoncon

Robert Asprin,Janny Wurts,Mike Resnick

Attending Dragoncon, perhaps the greatest fan celebration in the world, has inspired much. Among them are parties, marriages, divorces, romances, music, art, game companies, and stories by some of Science…

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Factory Acts Amendment Bill: Speeches of Professor Fawcett, M.P., and Sir Thomas Bazley, M.P.: On the Adjourned Debate, on Wednesday, July 30, 1873 Volume Talbot Collection of British Pamphlets

Henry Fawcett

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

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Battlestations

David Drake,Steve Perry,Mike Resnick,S. M. Stirling

When the Fleet is challenged by an alien armada from the other side of the galaxy, the Fleet constructs the Stephen Hawking, an enormous mobile base for thousands of soldiers…

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