For every success in the history of the world, there has also been a mistake. For every breakthrough, a blunder, and for every genius, a blunderer. This astonishing collection of tales makes fascinating and compulsive reading. From wrongful imprisonments and a near-fatal prison shoot-out resulting from mistaken identity, together with a catalogue of tragic human errors leading to disasters the whole world mourns, this collection pulls together the world's gravest errors. These accounts of natural disasters, human error and major catastrophes give an absorbing insight into the slip-ups of the last century.