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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?

Product Description: An all-new compendium of 101 historic screw-ups from the author of 100 Mistakes that Changed History. DID I DO THAT??? When asked to name a successor, Alexander the Great declared that his empire should go “to the strongest”. ...read more

By Bill Fawcett

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9781101987049 | New Amer Library, September 6, 2016, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: An all-new compendium of 101 historic screw-ups from the author of 100 Mistakes that Changed History.

By Tooth and Claw

By Eric Flint, Mercedes Lackey, Jody Lynn Nye and S. M. Stirling

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9781476781372 | Baen Books, February 23, 2016, cover price $7.99 | also contains By Tooth and Claw

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9781501276989 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, September 22, 2015), cover price $14.99 | also contains By Tooth and Claw

By Tooth and Claw

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9781476781372 | Baen Books, February 23, 2016, cover price $7.99 | also contains By Tooth and Claw

Railway Architecture

Product Description: A guide to the architecture that gives British railways their identity, from stations to signal boxes. Roots of Britain's railways lie in the wooden-railed colliery wagonways of around 1600, but it was almost 1830 before specific railway architecture became needed...read more

By Bill Fawcett

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9780747814450 | Shire Pubns, January 20, 2015, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A guide to the architecture that gives British railways their identity, from stations to signal boxes.

How to Lose a War at Sea: Foolish Plans and Great Naval Blunders

By Bill Fawcett (editor)

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9780062069092 | William Morrow & Co, September 24, 2013, cover price $13.99

Shadows of the New Sun: Stories in Honor of Gene Wolfe

Product Description: Perhaps no living author of imaginative fiction has earned the awards, accolades, respect, and literary reputation of Gene Wolfe. His prose has been called subtle and brilliant, inspiring not just lovers of fantasy and science fiction, but readers of every stripe, transcending genre and defying preconceptions...read more

By Bill Fawcett (editor)

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9780765334589 | Tor Books, August 27, 2013, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: Perhaps no living author of imaginative fiction has earned the awards, accolades, respect, and literary reputation of Gene Wolfe.

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9780765334596 | Reprint edition (Tor Books, August 26, 2014), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Perhaps no living author of imaginative fiction has earned the awards, accolades, respect, and literary reputation of Gene Wolfe.

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9781480515987 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, August 5, 2014), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: âGuaranteed to give Wolfe devotees hours of listening pleasure.

9781480515932 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, August 27, 2013), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: âGuaranteed to give Wolfe devotees hours of listening pleasure.

Trust Me, I Know What I'm Doing: 100 More Mistakes That Lost Elections, Ended Empires, and Made World History What It Is Today

Product Description: Hindsight hurts. * The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act, having the American colonies pay for their own defense—which instead starts a revolution. * In 1929, President Herbert Hoover decides to let the economy fix itself…and the Great Depression gets greater...read more

By Bill Fawcett

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9780425257364 | Berkley Pub Group, December 4, 2012, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Hindsight hurts.

Doomed to Repeat: The Lessons of History We've Failed to Learn

By Bill Fawcett

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9780062069061 | William Morrow & Co, March 12, 2013, cover price $14.99

Myth-Interpretations: The Worlds of Robert Asprin

By Robert Asprin and Bill Fawcett (editor)

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9781439133903 | Original edition (Baen Books, October 5, 2010), cover price $14.00

How to Lose the Civil War: Military Mistakes of the War Between the States

Product Description: âFawcett rivals Jim Dunnigan as a general-audience military analyst.ââPublishers WeeklyAn expert on historical military incompetence, Bill Fawcett now offers an engrossing, fact-filled collection that sheds light on the biggest, dumbest screw ups of the Americaâs bloodiest conflict...read more

By Bill Fawcett (editor)

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9780061807275 | William Morrow & Co, March 22, 2011, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: âFawcett rivals Jim Dunnigan as a general-audience military analyst.

Battlestations

Product Description: When the Fleet is challenged by an alien armada from the other side of the galaxy, the Fleet constructs the Stephen Hawking, an enormous mobile base for thousands of soldiers and warships... and the overstressed crew prepares for a direct assault by a deadly insectoid race...read more

By David Drake (editor), Bill Fawcett (editor), Katherine Kurtz, Steve Perry and Mike Resnick

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9781607012511 | Prime Books, February 22, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: When the Fleet is challenged by an alien armada from the other side of the galaxy, the Fleet constructs the Stephen Hawking, an enormous mobile base for thousands of soldiers and warships.

How to Lose Wwii: Bad Mistakes of the Good War

By Bill Fawcett (editor)

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9780061807312 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, August 10, 2010), cover price $13.99

Miscellaneous:

9780062000170 | Harpercollins, August 10, 2010, cover price $9.99

Nebula Awards Showcase 2010

By Bill Fawcett (editor)

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9780451463166, titled "Nebula Awards Showcase 2010: The Year's Best Sf and Fantasy" | Roc, April 6, 2010, cover price $16.00

Men at War: A Soldier's-eye View of the Most Important Battles in History

Product Description: Epic battles?as seen through the eyes of the men who fought them. From Gettysburg to D-Day, history?s most momentous battles have been recounted to the world on a grand scale. This book, for the first time ever, looks at man?s most epic battles from the point of view of the soldiers on the front lines; providing new insight into the great wars of history...read more

By Bill Fawcett (editor)

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9780425230138 | Original edition (Berkley Pub Group, December 1, 2009), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Epic battles?

You Said What?: Lies and Propaganda Throughout History

A lighthearted collection of some of history's most notorious deceptions, frauds, and works of propaganda represents an irreverent tour of such examples as the effort to hide FDR's disability, the mythological achievements of Davy Crockett, and the political spins that promoted modern military conflicts. Original. 30,000 first printing.

By Bill Fawcett (editor)

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9780061130502 | Harpercollins, December 1, 2007, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: A lighthearted collection of some of history's most notorious deceptions, frauds, and works of propaganda represents an irreverent tour of such examples as the effort to hide FDR's disability, the mythological achievements of Davy Crockett, and the political spins that promoted modern military conflicts.

How to Lose a War: More Foolish Plans and Great Military Blunders

Product Description: From the Crusades to the modern age of chemical warfare and smart bombs, history is littered with truly disastrous military campaigns. How to Lose a War chronicles some of the most remarkable strategic catastrophes and doomed military adventures of overreaching invaders and clueless defendersâwhether the failure was a result of poor planning, miscalculations, monumental ego, or failed intelligence ...read more

By Bill Fawcett (editor)

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9780061358449 | Original edition (Harpercollins, August 1, 2009), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: From the Crusades to the modern age of chemical warfare and smart bombs, history is littered with truly disastrous military campaigns.

It Looked Good on Paper: Bizarre Inventions, Design Disasters, and Engineering Follies

By Bill Fawcett (editor)

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9780061358432 | Harpercollins, February 1, 2009, cover price $13.99

Here Be Dragons: Tales of Dragoncon

Product Description: Attending Dragoncon, perhaps the greatest fan celebration in the world, has inspired much. Among them are parties, marriages, divorces, romances, music, art, new game companies, and now stories by some of Science Fiction's top authors, including Mike Resnick, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Janny Wurts, Robert Asprin, Selina Rosen, and many more! If you have ever attended a science fiction, comic, or media convention you will find yourself at home in these pages...read more

By Bill Fawcett (editor)

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9780809573318 | Wildside Pr, September 1, 2008, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Attending Dragoncon, perhaps the greatest fan celebration in the world, has inspired much.

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