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Geoffrey Blainey. History . Like Lewis Richardson he belonged to that genera- tion which came of age just before the First World War ; and as a young member of Britain's delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 he saw the jaded ...
Geoffrey Blainey. History . Like Lewis Richardson he belonged to that genera- tion which came of age just before the First World War ; and as a young member of Britain's delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 he saw the jaded ...
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... Since an explanation of peace is indirectly an explana- tion of war , the prevailing knowledge of the causes of war must be deeply tinged with myth and superstition . - - Book Two The Web of War 3 : Dreams and 32 The Mystery of Peace.
... Since an explanation of peace is indirectly an explana- tion of war , the prevailing knowledge of the causes of war must be deeply tinged with myth and superstition . - - Book Two The Web of War 3 : Dreams and 32 The Mystery of Peace.
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... tion and yielded such spurious victories . Several historians argued that certain wars were uninten- tional . The encyclopaedic New Cambridge Modern History reveals that the War of Jenkins ' Ear ' was the result of a chronic state of ...
... tion and yielded such spurious victories . Several historians argued that certain wars were uninten- tional . The encyclopaedic New Cambridge Modern History reveals that the War of Jenkins ' Ear ' was the result of a chronic state of ...
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