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History's Great Military Blunders and the Lessons They Teach
2015
Director
Gregory Aldrete
Supplier
The Great Courses
In This Series

Episode 1
Petersburg: Union Digs Its Own Grave—1864

Episode 2
Syracuse: Athens’s Second Front—413 B.C.

Episode 3
Carrhae: The Parthian Shot—53 B.C.

Episode 4
Red Cliffs: Cao Cao’s Bad Day—208 A.D.

Episode 5
Barbarian Gate: Adrianople—378, Pliska—811

Episode 6
Fourth Crusade: Byzantium Betrayed—1204

Episode 7
Kalka River: Genghis Khan’s General—1223

Episode 8
Courtrai: Knights versus Shopkeepers—1302

Episode 9
Nagashino: Taking Swords to a Gunfight—1575

Episode 10
Cartagena: High Walls, Short Ladders—1741

Episode 11
Culloden: The Bonnie Prince Blunders—1746

Episode 12
Russia: Napoleon Retreats in the Snow—1812

Episode 13
Afghanistan: Khyber Pass Death Trap—1842

Episode 14
Crimea: Charge of the Light Brigade—1854

Episode 15
Greasy Grass: Custer’s Last Stand—1876

Episode 16
Isandlwana: 25,000 Zulus Undetected—1879

Episode 17
Adwa: Italy’s Fiasco in Ethiopia—1896

Episode 18
Colenso: The Second Boer War—1899

Episode 19
Tannenberg: Ineptitude in the East—1914

Episode 20
Gallipoli: Churchill Dooms Allied Assault—1915

Episode 21
World War II: Royal Navy Goes Down—1941–42

Episode 22
Dieppe Raid: Catastrophe on the Beach—1942

Episode 23
Operation Market Garden: A Bridge Too Far—1944

Episode 24
The Great Blunders: Four Paths to Failure