Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters

Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever

De: Jared Knott

Narrado por: Stephen Bowlby

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.

©2020 Jared Knott (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing

learn from the past

great book/listen, devil is in the details, how the past can repeat itself if we don't learn from it

A little too reductive and speculative for my taste.

I think this book would be fine for a high school sophomore interested in history, but I found it to be far too reductive for my taste. In most cases, the author stretches to hinge events on a single “‘mistake,” when in reality most events require chains of complex causalities that are not so easily attributable.

The book also reaches on the other side of the equation— sometimes delving into high degrees of speculation to tease out what “could have happened.” I didn’t find most of these conclusions very thorough or well-reasoned.

Lastly, the book constantly delves shallowly into conspiracy theories and then quickly self-corrects with a debunk, but I found this something akin to “clickbait” and didn’t care for it.

Overall, a mostly forgettable read punctuated with a few anecdotes worth tucking away.

great read!

great read! worth reading! I would suggest reading this book... because ... its good! you should read good books.

The book is about a lot more than you may realize

The overwhelming lesson I got from this book is that studying all of the steps someone has taken that ultimately lead to a mistake can only help in preventing future catastrophes.

I already know how I am going to change work processes tomorrow.

Great Voice, Lovely American Accent

Please be careful for the devil is indeed in the details. Great Book. Learned a lot of history.

One of the most interesting true stories ever

I felt like I was in the place where these uncanny mistakes happened. Such a small missed detail, changed the world again and again and again and again!
I am forever changed by this book.
I believe in Divine Intervention, but you don’t have to believe anything, just the facts set before you. Incredible amount of research to find these formerly to me hidden mistakes.
Thank you to the author and his minions for all the hard work.

Very, very interesting facts

I really enjoyed this book. It has some very interesting facts and I will be listening to it again.

Blathering, rambling book

I was expecting an interesting look at history. Nope. This was at times rambling and overreaching. I found very little about these stories interesting. One thing it made me realize was that virtually every "accident" is related to a blunder. Sometimes very directly and often indirectly.

Too much personal and political opinion

The information may be accurate to some degree. But the author seems to be constantly giving his own unfounded opinions. Like hitler survived assassins because of demonic influenza or if Gore was president the war with Iran never would have happened. I couldn’t finish the book.