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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... optimism was mainly said to lie in the recent series of short wars in Europe and the growing mesh of financial and ... optimism of European leaders in 1914 was something more powerful than their knowledge of recent military and financial ...
... optimism was mainly said to lie in the recent series of short wars in Europe and the growing mesh of financial and ... optimism of European leaders in 1914 was something more powerful than their knowledge of recent military and financial ...
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... optimistic threads must have been far thicker in order to weave the prevailing mood . V Even after the great blood - drench , the start of many wars was marked by optimism . The victorious allies intervened in Russia in 1918 in the ...
... optimistic threads must have been far thicker in order to weave the prevailing mood . V Even after the great blood - drench , the start of many wars was marked by optimism . The victorious allies intervened in Russia in 1918 in the ...
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... optimistic expectations held on the eve of most wars ; and for some time it seemed futile to bother to search for evidence of optimism among those who made the decisions that led to war in 1939. When belatedly I decided to make a quick ...
... optimistic expectations held on the eve of most wars ; and for some time it seemed futile to bother to search for evidence of optimism among those who made the decisions that led to war in 1939. When belatedly I decided to make a quick ...
Contents
The Peace that Passeth Understanding | 3 |
Paradise is a Bazaar | 18 |
Dreams and Delusions of a Coming War | 35 |
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