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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Page 77
... hope of quenching internal unrest . At the same time it is feasible , if one so desires , to argue that soon after the commencement of the war Plehve believed that internal unity would be one of the bonus dividends of victory . His hope ...
... hope of quenching internal unrest . At the same time it is feasible , if one so desires , to argue that soon after the commencement of the war Plehve believed that internal unity would be one of the bonus dividends of victory . His hope ...
Page 100
... hope that weather would for long favour their advance . * When Russia and Turkey began to fight near the Black Sea in 1853 , when the Serbs crossed the Dragoman Pass into Bulgaria in 1885 , and when the small Balkan allies attacked ...
... hope that weather would for long favour their advance . * When Russia and Turkey began to fight near the Black Sea in 1853 , when the Serbs crossed the Dragoman Pass into Bulgaria in 1885 , and when the small Balkan allies attacked ...
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... hope that the other would nego- tiate , the other retaliating with its own cautious display of force . Thus England in September 1754 decided to send Major - General Edward Braddock across the Atlantic to organise her forces . He went ...
... hope that the other would nego- tiate , the other retaliating with its own cautious display of force . Thus England in September 1754 decided to send Major - General Edward Braddock across the Atlantic to organise her forces . He went ...
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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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