Cem exemplos de más decisões, equívocos e meros acasos que mudaram o rumo da História, da antiguidade até aos nossos dias. A importância de conhecer os erros do passado para evitar que os mesmos se repitam. ( )

Started OK, especially since I was reading this as a bathroom book; but the longer I read, the more predictable his writing became; the closer the topics came to the present, the more annoyingly predictable.

Not worth the effort. ( )

Interesting, introduced me to some new battles I wasn't aware of, but HUGE problems.
- Not well written - very elementary, yet awkward+confusing grammar at times
- Gave way too much emphasis on single cause in some cases
- Very quick to consider something a serious mistake of stupidity or pride, even when it was a simple mistake of ignorance that we only see with 20/20 hindsight
- Most significantly, outright historically wrong on some parts. Sometimes this was an aside to his main points - e.g. timeline of American Revolution vs British India and African colonies, or claiming Iran/Iraq war was longest of 20th century
- However, at least one case it was central to his argument - that is, reversing order of Winter War and Molotov-Ribbentrop pact

Overall still a fun throw-away read, but not a good pop history or what-if book. ( )