The Causes of WarThe peace that passeth understanding -- Paradise is a bazaar -- Dreams and delusions of a coming war -- While waterbirds fight -- Death-watch and scapegoat wars -- War chests and pulse beats -- A calendar of war -- The abacus of power -- War as an accident -- Aims and arms -- A day that lives in infamy -- Vendetta of the Black Sea -- Long wars -- And shorter wars -- The mystery of wide wars -- Australia's Pacific war -- Myths of the nuclear era -- War, peace and neutrality. |
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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 died in 1902 , before the Boer War ended . He was very much a debater and , deprived of the right of reply , his arguments became less compelling . Certainly they did not die . They were translated into many languages , and a ...
... Bloch died in 1902 , before the Boer War ended . He was very much a debater and , deprived of the right of reply , his arguments became less compelling . Certainly they did not die . They were translated into many languages , and a ...
Contents
The Peace that Passeth Understanding | 3 |
Paradise is a Bazaar | 18 |
Dreams and Delusions of a Coming War | 35 |
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