History's Worst Decisions and the People Who Made Them (IMM Lifestyle Books)

History's Worst Decisions and the People Who Made Them (IMM Lifestyle Books) by Stephen Weir. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781847735041.

Mankinds past is strewn with mistakes - colossal blunders driven by virtue as often as vice. The unlucky people in this book didnt always set out to cause the mayhem they did, but somehow things just went wrong. Really wrong. This new color edition of "Historys Worst Decisions" is an entertaining look at some truly monumental mishaps, from Adam and Eves decision to eat the apple and Neros burning down of his own city, to the destruction of the Himalayan rain forest and the billions of dollars wasted on the Y2K scare. A compendium of cock-ups, "Historys Worst Decisions" provides a clear warning - its all too easy to go down in history as an idiot!