Encyclopedia Idiotica
Subtitle: History's Worst Decisions and the People Who Made Them
Publisher: Barron''s Educational Series; Barron's
Published: September 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780764159176
Subjects: World - General; Reference And Information Services; World History; History; History - General History; History: World; Reference; History / General; Miscellanea
Description: The 64 A.D. burning of Rome during the reign of Nero ... Winston Churchill's ill-conceived and disastrous World War I plan to invade Turkey at Gallipoli ... the Maginot Line, built in France in 1929-34 in a foolhardy effort to prevent the feared German invasion ... the 1950s thalidomide pharmaceutical disaster that resulted in at least 20,000 babies born with deformities ... the 1989-91 misappropriation of company funds by publishing executive Robert Maxwell, and the collapse of his financial empire ... the Enron scandal of 2000 that brought down a yet larger business empire.