Great information disasters : twelve prime examples of how information mismanagement led to human misery, political misfortune, and business failure / edited by Forest W. Horton, Jr. and Dennis Lewis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Is the West losing the information productivity contest? / Georges Anderla -- Hitler's decision to attack the Soviet Union, 1941 / Eric H. Boehm -- Three Mile Island: the information meltdown / Christopher Burns -- The Tacoma Bridge Disaster: a lesson in disregarding information? / Anthony E. Cawkell -- Cultural dissolution, a societal information disaster: the case of the Yir Yoront in Australia / Richard A.V. Diener -- Disaster at Arnhem: the role of information during the operation 'Market Garden' in September 1944 / J. Kist -- The PPS Information Development Disaster in the early 1980s / Richard Lytle -- The events of October 1987 / Bob Norton and Simon Gotts -- The pinnacle of deception: Civil War Intelligence and Signals in 1864 / William Hamilton Price.

(cont) $170,000 down the drain: the MRAIS story / Gerald Sophar -- Comments on Gaskill's 'Timetable of a Failure' / Robert S. Taylor -- The US stock market crash of 1987: the role of information system malfunctions / John R. Weitzel and Donald A. Marchand.