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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... colonies , both sides envisaged victory . At Phila- delphia in July 1775 the congress of the United Colonies gave thanks to God that he had not allowed them to enter such a war ' until we were grown up to our present strength ' . Major ...
... colonies , both sides envisaged victory . At Phila- delphia in July 1775 the congress of the United Colonies gave thanks to God that he had not allowed them to enter such a war ' until we were grown up to our present strength ' . Major ...
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... colonies . Likewise the defeat of France led to a struggle for possession of French colonies on the African and Asian shores of that sea . On the European shore the neutral nations of Jugoslavia and Greece were now vulnerable , and by ...
... colonies . Likewise the defeat of France led to a struggle for possession of French colonies on the African and Asian shores of that sea . On the European shore the neutral nations of Jugoslavia and Greece were now vulnerable , and by ...
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... colonies stretching from Hanoi to New Caledonia , the red patchwork of British colonies , Australia and her own New Guinea possessions , Portuguese Macao and East Timor , the United States ' satellite in the Philippines , the Dutch East ...
... colonies stretching from Hanoi to New Caledonia , the red patchwork of British colonies , Australia and her own New Guinea possessions , Portuguese Macao and East Timor , the United States ' satellite in the Philippines , the Dutch East ...
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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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