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Calamities, Catastrophes and Cock Ups

Derek Wilson

From the Mongol Invasion of Persia through the Siege of Leningrad to the Rwandan Genocide of 1994 in this brilliantly vivid entertaining book Derek Wilson picks the ten very worst years in world history describing a catalogue of calamities catastrophes and cock-ups that will make you hair curl.>

  • Classification : History
  • Pub Date : SEP 1, 2011
  • Imprint : Short Books
  • Page Extent : 592
  • Binding : HB
  • ISBN : 9781907595455
  • Price : INR 899
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Derek Wilson

Derek Wilson is one of Britain's leading popular historians. Since leaving Cambridge where he took the Archbishop Cranmer Prize for post-graduate research he has written over 50 books including Rothschild: A Story of Wealth and Power and Hans Holbein: Portrait of an Unknown Man as well as making numerous radio and TV appearances.

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