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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... believed . The coming war , it was predicted , would be short . The fighting might last three months or perhaps six months . Few of Europe's leaders therefore could foresee the magnitude of the tragedy that was about to begin . When the ...
... believed . The coming war , it was predicted , would be short . The fighting might last three months or perhaps six months . Few of Europe's leaders therefore could foresee the magnitude of the tragedy that was about to begin . When the ...
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... believed that the Anglo - French leaders were timid and their military advisers were not confident of the outcome of a general European war . Hitler also insisted that Britain expected the next world war if it should come , to be long ...
... believed that the Anglo - French leaders were timid and their military advisers were not confident of the outcome of a general European war . Hitler also insisted that Britain expected the next world war if it should come , to be long ...
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... believed in ' a cycle of war and peace , and that it works through economic prosperity and im- poverishment ' . I can find , however , no evidence that Macfie believed in a cycle of war and peace . The only cyclical occurrence which ...
... believed in ' a cycle of war and peace , and that it works through economic prosperity and im- poverishment ' . I can find , however , no evidence that Macfie believed in a cycle of war and peace . The only cyclical occurrence which ...
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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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