Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: 20th Century Military Blunders

by David Wragg

At many points in the 20th century, failures in command or political direction have resulted in military campaigns and operations failing to achieve their objectives. This text explores a selection of such instances including Pearl Harbor, the Bay of Pigs, the Falklands and Serbia in 1999.

Genres: Military History

246 pages, Hardcover

First published August 25, 2000

Reviews

[Caer Glas]

Dreadful. A reworked mish-mash of other works along the same lines. Worse, the research, if he did any, work is outdated, especially the chapter on Vietnam and the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which has been cast in a newe light by the release of American documents showing much of it to be faked.

Critical of Britian, Germany, and just about everyone else but the USA. The author lives in Scotland according to the dust jacket, and is either a transplanted American or a Anglophobic Scot. Not worth anyone's time that wants serious, well written military history