Days of infamy : military blunders of the 20th century / Michael Coffey ; introduction by Mike Wallace.

Includes index.

Introduction / Mike Wallace -- Pt. I. Europe Loses its Way - the First World War from Sarajevo to Versailles. The Assassination of the Archduke. Disaster in the Dardanelles and Gallipoli. The Sinking of the Lusitania. British Battle Cruiser Disaster at Jutland. French Mutiny in the Trenches. The Treaty of Versailles and the Seeds of World War II -- Pt. II. The World Goes to War Again - from the Russian Revolution to Pearl Harbor. Stalin's Purges, Hitler's Putsch. Blunders of Hitler's Luftwaffe. German Hesitation at Dunkirk and Operation Sealion. The Pilot Who Bombed London. Hitler's Declaration of War on the U.S. -- Pt. III. World War II Gets Ugly - Disasters at Sea and Death in Winter. The Sinking of the Graf Spee. The Gray Chest of the Queen Mary. The Scattering of Convoy P017. Death at Stalingrad. The German Army Gets Trapped -- Pt. IV. The Turning of the Tide in World War II - from the Battle of Midway to the North African Desert. Sinking of Force 2.

Japanese Bungling at Midway. Naval Night Fighting at Guadalcanal. The Disastrous Raid on Dieppe. The Bombing of Monte Cassino. The Last Flight of the Lady Be Good -- Pt. V. Sending Hitler Home, and Tojo, Too - Bringing World War II to an End. Bomber Harris and the Bombing of Barlin. Operation Cobra and Friendly Fire at Saint-Lo. A Bridge Too Far. The Battle of the Bulge. The Bomb Plot to Kill Hitler. USS Indianapolis in a Sea of Sharks -- Pt. VI. Of Cold Wars and Holy Wars - Superpower Standoffs and Desert Storms. Yalta and the Seeds of the Cold War. From Korea to Dien Bien Phu to the Tet Offensive. The Bay of Pigs. The Spanish H-Bomb Crash: Collision in the Air. The Failed Gorbachev Coup. Disaster in the Desert: Operation Eagle Claw. The Invasion of Kuwait.