What makes the Civil War so fascinating is that it presents an endless number of "what if" scenarios—moments when the outcome of the war (and therefore world

From Fort Sumter to Appomattox, Civil War Blunders traces the war according to its amusing, often deadly miscues.

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Collected in one volume, here are backfires and blunders that collapsed empires, crashed economies, and altered the course of the world. From the Maginot Line t