Bad Calls Across History
and Those Who Lived to See the Error of Their Ways

History is full of bad decisions.
This book is about the ones that didn’t get the mercy of a quick ending.

Ragerts is an anthology of one hundred spectacular misjudgments — not made in the chaos of war or the heat of battle, but in quiet rooms filled with confidence. Boardrooms. Laboratories. Pulpits. Studios. Offices where someone said, “This will work,” and everyone else nodded.

These are the people who lived long enough to realize they were wrong.

Inside these pages are inventors who poisoned the future, executives who laughed at tomorrow, institutions that mistook certainty for truth, and visionaries who perfected the wrong idea. Each chapter is a thousand-word autopsy of confidence — tracing how a decision made perfect sense at the time, how it unraveled, and how its architects eventually faced the wreckage they created.

No battlefield fog. No split-second panic. Just slow, deliberate choices — followed by the longest, most uncomfortable pause in history.

Written with dark humor, sharp irony, and an eye for the grimly human details, Ragerts treats regret not as tragedy, but as inevitability. This is not a book about villains or idiots. It’s about smart people, armed with good intentions and terrible certainty, watching the future prove them wrong.

If history has a sound, it isn’t a scream.
It’s the quiet, universal noise of a hand meeting a face.