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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Geoffrey Blainey. cavalry . By 1900 the danger zone for cavalry was four or five times as long , and so for several minutes the approaching cavalry was exposed to the slaughter of rifles and machine- guns . As the number of rounds ...
Geoffrey Blainey. cavalry . By 1900 the danger zone for cavalry was four or five times as long , and so for several minutes the approaching cavalry was exposed to the slaughter of rifles and machine- guns . As the number of rounds ...
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Geoffrey Blainey. faith in the value of cavalry was revived in some quarters . Sir Douglas Haig's last despatch , written on the morning of the armistice in 1918 , described two British cavalry divisions pur- suing the Germans east of ...
Geoffrey Blainey. faith in the value of cavalry was revived in some quarters . Sir Douglas Haig's last despatch , written on the morning of the armistice in 1918 , described two British cavalry divisions pur- suing the Germans east of ...
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... cavalry : Brian Bond in M. Howard ( ed . ) , pp . 97–8 . 213. Training Manual : ibid . , p . 89 . 213. Cavalry's ' speed and endurance ' : Maude , ' Cavalry ' , p . 569 . 214. ' Will hang the fate ' : ibid . 214. ' Battle of Dorking ...
... cavalry : Brian Bond in M. Howard ( ed . ) , pp . 97–8 . 213. Training Manual : ibid . , p . 89 . 213. Cavalry's ' speed and endurance ' : Maude , ' Cavalry ' , p . 569 . 214. ' Will hang the fate ' : ibid . 214. ' Battle of Dorking ...
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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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