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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... forces would hold Russia on the eastern front while the main Ger- man forces made a lightning thrust on the western front . According to Schlieffen's plan the spearhead of that western thrust was to be a great wheeling movement through ...
... forces would hold Russia on the eastern front while the main Ger- man forces made a lightning thrust on the western front . According to Schlieffen's plan the spearhead of that western thrust was to be a great wheeling movement through ...
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... forces isolated in Indo - China could expect few re- inforcements , and indeed Thailand had recently snatched part of French Laos and Cambodia . On 21 July 1941 France and Japan signed a mutual security pact , by which Japan was ...
... forces isolated in Indo - China could expect few re- inforcements , and indeed Thailand had recently snatched part of French Laos and Cambodia . On 21 July 1941 France and Japan signed a mutual security pact , by which Japan was ...
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... Forces in the Far East , and heard the confidential view that Japan was already over - extended and that any Japanese attempt to capture the Dutch East Indies or Malaya could be thwarted . Page then flew to Washington where he heard ...
... Forces in the Far East , and heard the confidential view that Japan was already over - extended and that any Japanese attempt to capture the Dutch East Indies or Malaya could be thwarted . Page then flew to Washington where he heard ...
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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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