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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... front - line stretching from the Danube down to the sea at Salonika . A foretaste of the long French front in the Great War , it absorbed all the strength of the Bulgarians and so exposed their unguarded eastern and northern borders to ...
... front - line stretching from the Danube down to the sea at Salonika . A foretaste of the long French front in the Great War , it absorbed all the strength of the Bulgarians and so exposed their unguarded eastern and northern borders to ...
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... front that linked the Baltic and the Black Sea decisive advances were made until the Russians sought their armistice in 1917 . The massive casualties on the eastern front were partly a re- flection of the more intense winters and the ...
... front that linked the Baltic and the Black Sea decisive advances were made until the Russians sought their armistice in 1917 . The massive casualties on the eastern front were partly a re- flection of the more intense winters and the ...
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... fronts , thus limiting the chance that one side would be winning simultaneously on every front ; and the war had an additional front - guerrilla warfare - which always tends to prolong a war . In effect the kind of influence which ...
... fronts , thus limiting the chance that one side would be winning simultaneously on every front ; and the war had an additional front - guerrilla warfare - which always tends to prolong a war . In effect the kind of influence 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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