Bill Fawcett

101 Stumbles in the March of History Bill Fawcett

Did I do that?!

When asked to name a successor, Alexander the Great declared that his empire should go to the strongest. But would rival factions have descended into war if he'd been a little more specific?

What if the Vienna School of Art took a chance on a hopeful young student named Adolf Hitler?

If Pope Clement VII granted King Henry VIII an annulment, England would likely still be Catholic today-and so would America.

Bill Fawcett, author of 100 Mistakes That Changed History, offers a compendium of 101 all-new mammoth mistakes-from the ill-fated rule of Emperor Darius III to the equally ill-fated search for WMDs in Iraq-that will, unfortunately, never be forgotten by history.