Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever
About this audiobook
The small things that had great historical consequences ...
How often does a single tiny mistake cause an entire civilization to collapse? More often than you think! Listeners of Jared Knott’s book Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters will be amazed at the little things that changed history in a big way. Here are a few examples:
A single document poorly designed by one single clerk in one single county changed the outcome of a presidential election and led directly to a major war.
A soldier accidentally kicked a helmet off of the top of a wall and caused an empire to collapse.
A small mechanical device several inches long failed to function, which changed the outcome of WWII and led to the deaths of millions of people.
A man failed to gather his army in time to defend against an attack because of the temptation of opium and a young slave woman.
And many more!
Hypnotic and addictive, these well-researched, factual stories will keep you listening far past your bedtime. Showing human weakness at its very worst in critical moments, this book is the “butterfly effect” in human history reviewed.
About the author
Jared Knott has had numerous articles published in the Mensa Bulletin and in graduate school textbooks on subjects ranging from Supreme Court reform to Arctic exploration. He was a decorated combat infantry officer in Vietnam in the First Air Cavalry Division. In his civilian career, he has served as a vice president of sales and marketing and marketing director in the home improvement industry.
Stephen Bowlby is an in-demand narrator with a background in film and stage acting.
Win Blevins is the New York Times bestselling author of a dozen novels, several volumes of informal history, and Dictionary of the American West. He has won the Western Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award and was inducted into the Western Writers Hall of Fame. His works include the novel Stone Song, which won the Spur Award and a Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for Best Fiction. So Wild a Dream won the Spur Award for Best Novel of the West. In 2003, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers named him Writer of the Year.
