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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... Serbia . The king of Serbia believed that , if Bulgaria's army remained pinned down on the distant Turkish border , he could easily snatch territory . It was almost as if the French were guarding the German border in expectation of an ...
... Serbia . The king of Serbia believed that , if Bulgaria's army remained pinned down on the distant Turkish border , he could easily snatch territory . It was almost as if the French were guarding the German border in expectation of an ...
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... Serbia , and Austria's ultimatum ended the war exactly a fortnight after it had begun . Just as Serbia was the fisherman which had intervened while Bulgaria and Turkey were quar- relling , now Austria threatened to fish while Bulgaria ...
... Serbia , and Austria's ultimatum ended the war exactly a fortnight after it had begun . Just as Serbia was the fisherman which had intervened while Bulgaria and Turkey were quar- relling , now Austria threatened to fish while Bulgaria ...
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... Serbs as the battle of Kossovo ' , wrote C. Mijatovich , the Serbian minister to Britain in the last years of Victoria's ... Serbia , St Vitus's Day was becoming an anti - Austrian celebration . And on that day , in a city with strong ...
... Serbs as the battle of Kossovo ' , wrote C. Mijatovich , the Serbian minister to Britain in the last years of Victoria's ... Serbia , St Vitus's Day was becoming an anti - Austrian celebration . And on that day , in a city with strong ...
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The Peace that Passeth Understanding | 3 |
Paradise is a Bazaar | 18 |
Dreams and Delusions of a Coming War | 35 |
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