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Days of Infamy: Military Blunders of the 20th Century

By: Michael Coffey
Narrated by: Robert Abia
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 A fascinating look behind more than fifty of the most historic military blunders of our century. Lively and engaging, in-depth and informative, this companion to an upcoming series on the History Channel goes beyond mere footage to delve into the facts of some well-remembered but little understood incidents and accidents of modern military history.©1999 A&E Television Networks & Disney Enterprises, Inc. (P)2000 Books on Tape, Inc. 20th Century Americas Military Modern United States
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I was quite excited when I discovered this book whilst browsing the titles. But alas it didn't really live up to my expectations. Although being mindful of the scope of the book, it's still very light weight.

I would have expected a little more analysis as to psyche of the participants, is there a common factor with the participants involved with the events described. Even the nature of the information they acted on and whether perhaps they seen only what they wanted to see, and finally the reasons for a particular 'type' of interpretation.

Instead I got a rather brief collection of story's. Very interesting, and well narrated for that but with errors and whole world changing events not included, its for the non history buff. (In truth it didn't claim to be any thing else!) In short, its great light listening in the car, but just wasn't involved enough to engage me.

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Interesting book, though 20 yrs old. Summaries different points in history of 20th century
Narrator has a good voice but mispronounces every german word that is used. Quite irritating since much is concerning mideuropean themes.

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