Atlas of history's greatest disasters & mistakes
Subtitle: the 50 most significant moments explored in words and maps
By: Tim Cooke
Publisher: Quantum
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781845735340; 9781845735548
Subjects: Battles; Military history; History; Miscellanea
Other titles: 50 most significant moments explored in words and maps; Fifty most significant moments explored in words and maps
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: ANCIENT WORLD:; title: The failed pyramid (the "bent pyramid"); title: A new religion (Egypt, reign of Amenhotep IV); title: Fall of Croesus (King of Lydia in Anatolia); title: Battle of Lake Trasimene (Hannibal and the ambush of Roman troops at Lake Trasimene; title: The Ides of March (assassination of Julius Caesar); title: Destruction of Pompeii; title: Fall of Rome; title: MIDDLE AGES:; title: Vikings in Greenland; title: King John's disaster (Magna Carta); title: Leaning Tower of Pisa; title: Black Death; title: Peasant's Revolt (England, 1381); title: Battle of Agincourt; title: New World (Christopher Columbus); title: Bonfire of the Vanities (Florence, Italy and Savonarola); title: EARLY MODERN WORLD:; title: Cortes and the Aztec; title: End of an Empire (Spanish and the Inca); title: Lady Jane Grey; title: Roanoke, the lost colony (Roanoke Island, North Carolina); title: Spanish Armarda; title: Henry Hudson (quest for the North-West Passage); title: Great fire of London; title: Easter Island; title: Salem witch trials; title: Scilly Naval disaster (Scilly Isles, England); title: American Independence; title: NINETEENTH CENTURY:; title: Napoleon in Russia; title: Charge of the Light Brigade (Crimean War); title: The Great Stink (sewers and cholera, London, 1858); title: Battle of Little Big Horn; title: Commercial disaster (Western Union declines to buy the rights to the telephone); title: Ghost dance (prophet Jack Wilson and a new religion for Native Americans 1880s, Battle of Wounded Knee); title: TWENTIETH CENTURY:; title: San Francisco earthquake (April 1906); title: Triangle Shirtwaist fire (turning point for worker safety, Lower Manhattan, 1911); title: Sinking of the Titanic; title: Gallipoli; title: Battle of the Somme; title: Prohibition; title: Wall Street Crash; title: Munich Conference (Chamberlain/Hitler and the Munich Agreement, 1938); title: Pearl Harbour; title: Operation Barbarossa (Hitlers invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941); title: Dieppe Raid (Dieppe, France, Operation Jubilee, 1942); title: CONTEMPORARY WORLD:; title: Space Shuttle Challenger; title: Alaska oil spill (grounding of Exxon Valdez in Prince William Sound); title: Indian Ocean Tsunami (Boxing Day, 2004); title: Dot.Com Crash; title: Hurricane Katrina (Gulf Coast, USA, 2005); title: Banking crisis (World Financial Crisis, 2008).