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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... remained united : nor would a Spanish squadron in 1864 have seized the Chincha Islands and their rich guano beds from Peru . Armies and fleets from western Europe would not have dared to attack Mexico in 1861 if the neighbouring United ...
... remained united : nor would a Spanish squadron in 1864 have seized the Chincha Islands and their rich guano beds from Peru . Armies and fleets from western Europe would not have dared to attack Mexico in 1861 if the neighbouring United ...
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... remained a separate war . Fin- land and Hungary and Rumania had joined in the attack on Russia but Britain waited almost six months before she de- clared war on this trio which was attacking her ally . Similarly when Japan at the end of ...
... remained a separate war . Fin- land and Hungary and Rumania had joined in the attack on Russia but Britain waited almost six months before she de- clared war on this trio which was attacking her ally . Similarly when Japan at the end of ...
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... remained in the soil for days and , when the air temperatures rose , escaped into the atmosphere and wounded soldiers . In the last year of the war , various gases were so effective in surprise attacks that one in four of all American ...
... remained in the soil for days and , when the air temperatures rose , escaped into the atmosphere and wounded soldiers . In the last year of the war , various gases were so effective in surprise attacks that one in four of all American ...
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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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