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Retelling the most spectacular cock-ups in military history this graphic account has a great deal to say about the psychology of military incompetence and the reasons even the most well-oiled military machines inflict disaster upon themselves. Beginning in AD9 with the massacre of Varus and his legions in the Black Forest all the way up to present day conflict in Afghanistan it analyses why things go wrong on the battlefield and who is to blame.
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Retelling the most spectacular cock-ups in military history this graphic account has a great deal to say about the psychology of military incompetence & the reasons even the most well-oiled military machines inflict disaster upon themselves. Beginning in AD9 with the massacre of Varus & his legions in the Black Forest all the way up to present day conflict in Afghanistan it analyses why things go wrong on the battlefield & who is to blame.

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Black - A colour which does not emit any colour of the spectrum. Black absorbs all frequencies of the spectrum.
Forest - A area with a high density of trees
History - Anything that happens in the past. An acedemic subject.
Day - The time it takes a planet or other space objects to complete one rotation.
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