101 Stumbles in the March of History, Bill Fawcett
101 Stumbles in the March of History, Bill Fawcett
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101 Stumbles in the March of History
What If the Great Mistakes in War, Government, Industry, and Economics Were Not Made?

Author: Bill Fawcett

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 15 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/06/2016

Synopsis

Did I do that?!When asked to name a successor, Alexander the Great declared that his empire should go “to the strongest.” But would rival factions have descended into war if he’d been a little more specific?What if the Vienna School of Art took a chance on a hopeful young student named Adolf Hitler?If Pope Clement VII granted King Henry VIII an annulment, England would likely still be Catholic today—and so would America. Bill Fawcett, author of 100 Mistakes That Changed History, offers a compendium of 101 all-new mammoth mistakes—from the ill-fated rule of Emperor Darius III to the equally ill-fated search for WMDs in Iraq—that will, unfortunately, never be forgotten by history.

About Bill Fawcett

Bill Fawcett has been a professor, teacher, corporate executive, and college dean. He has written or coauthored over a dozen books, including 100 Mistakes That Changed History and 100 More Mistakes That Changed History. His company, Bill Fawcett & Associates, has packaged more than 250 titles for virtually every major publisher. He is also one of the founders of Mayfair Games, a board and role-play gaming company.

About Patrick Lawlor

Patrick Lawlor, an award-winning narrator, is also an accomplished stage actor, director, and combat choreographer. He has worked extensively off Broadway and has been an actor and stuntman in both film and television. He has been an Audie Award finalist multiple times and has garnered several AudioFile Earphones Awards, a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, and many starred audio reviews from Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Trish

So many fiction authors have taken on the notion of “what if” in recent years, to great success. Bill Fawcett does the same in this book of very short essays addressing major moments in history. “What if” Hitler had not been rejected from art school, or “what if” General Douglas MacArthur had halted......more

Goodreads review by Sean

A collection of historical turning points, though counterfactual history, as advised by my history teacher friend, is not good history. Too many unknowns make speculation not very helpful. Still a fun read, minus the obvious political commentary.......more

Goodreads review by Matt

Originally posted at: [URL not allowed] 101 Stumbles in the March of History: What If the Great Mistakes in War, Government, Industry, and Economics Were Not Made? by Bill Fawcett is a book written for alternate historians. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure the publisher wants to re......more

Goodreads review by James

An interesting survey of some of the great mistakes in history, with short essays on how they could have been avoided and how history might have progressed without them. It does suffer the typical problem of such works by focusing heavily on the 20th century and later (about 2/3 of the book), but so......more

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