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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... perhaps six months . Few of Europe's leaders therefore could foresee the magnitude of the tragedy that was about to begin . When the first nations formally declared war on one another , they were not consciously declaring the beginning ...
... perhaps six months . Few of Europe's leaders therefore could foresee the magnitude of the tragedy that was about to begin . When the first nations formally declared war on one another , they were not consciously declaring the beginning ...
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... perhaps think it comes from psychology ; some anthropologists perhaps believe that it has been verified by research in political science . They don't know where the theory comes from : all they know is its universal glow . The glow ...
... perhaps think it comes from psychology ; some anthropologists perhaps believe that it has been verified by research in political science . They don't know where the theory comes from : all they know is its universal glow . The glow ...
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... perhaps elucidates their advice . Maurice , Count de Saxe fought as a boy and a young man for the Austrians against France and for the Russians against Sweden and Turkey be- fore he joined the French Army . When the French fought the ...
... perhaps elucidates their advice . Maurice , Count de Saxe fought as a boy and a young man for the Austrians against France and for the Russians against Sweden and Turkey be- fore he joined the French Army . When the French fought the ...
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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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