This book provides an analysis for historical mistakes. Barbara Tuchman masterfully analyzes several famous moments in world history (cough cough Western history) to analyze what she refers to as folly or my personal favorite “woodenheadedness”. The idea here is that the causes for the folly might be myriad or diverse, but they fall under a few clear guidelines….as much perpetuated by a group than by an individual, there must have been reasonable and known alternatives….and there must have been fair warning that these were indeed […]