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... optimism was mainly said to lie in the recent series of short wars in Europe and the growing mesh of financial and ... optimism of European leaders in 1914 was something more powerful than their knowledge of recent military and financial ...
... optimism was mainly said to lie in the recent series of short wars in Europe and the growing mesh of financial and ... optimism of European leaders in 1914 was something more powerful than their knowledge of recent military and financial ...
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... optimistic threads must have been far thicker in order to weave the prevailing mood . V Even after the great blood - drench , the start of many wars was marked by optimism . The victorious allies intervened in Russia in 1918 in the ...
... optimistic threads must have been far thicker in order to weave the prevailing mood . V Even after the great blood - drench , the start of many wars was marked by optimism . The victorious allies intervened in Russia in 1918 in the ...
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... optimistic expectations held on the eve of most wars ; and for some time it seemed futile to bother to search for evidence of optimism among those who made the decisions that led to war in 1939. When belatedly I decided to make a quick ...
... optimistic expectations held on the eve of most wars ; and for some time it seemed futile to bother to search for evidence of optimism among those who made the decisions that led to war in 1939. When belatedly I decided to make a quick ...
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