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... Bloch predicted , through famine and socialist or an- archist upheavals , leaving no nation with victory . As a scholar of warfare Ivan Bloch was a genius . His raust have been one of the most remarkable predictions ever made in the ...
... Bloch predicted , through famine and socialist or an- archist upheavals , leaving no nation with victory . As a scholar of warfare Ivan Bloch was a genius . His raust have been one of the most remarkable predictions ever made in the ...
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... Bloch's only volume that was translated into English , gave a quick sketch of the man in 1899. Bloch was of benevolent appearance , middling build , and ' between fifty and sixty years of age ' . Did he shoot deer , play the harpsichord ...
... Bloch's only volume that was translated into English , gave a quick sketch of the man in 1899. Bloch was of benevolent appearance , middling build , and ' between fifty and sixty years of age ' . Did he shoot deer , play the harpsichord ...
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... Bloch , now almost forgotten , was resurrected . It is not clear however whether they knew - or we know why many of Bloch's military predictions had come to pass . Bloch had not plucked his predictions simply from the field opera- tions ...
... Bloch , now almost forgotten , was resurrected . It is not clear however whether they knew - or we know why many of Bloch's military predictions had come to pass . Bloch had not plucked his predictions simply from the field opera- tions ...
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