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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... wars , but at least five wars in the eighteenth century involved so many nations and spanned so much of the globe that they could also be called world wars . To explain why some wars touched such a huge expanse of sea and land is at ...
... wars , but at least five wars in the eighteenth century involved so many nations and spanned so much of the globe that they could also be called world wars . To explain why some wars touched such a huge expanse of sea and land is at ...
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... war , their alliances automatically drew in many other nations . This interpreta- tion has been often applied to the First World War but it is doubtful whether it fits many general wars . It does not fit the Revolutionary and Napoleonic ...
... war , their alliances automatically drew in many other nations . This interpreta- tion has been often applied to the First World War but it is doubtful whether it fits many general wars . It does not fit the Revolutionary and Napoleonic ...
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... wars : in assembling the dates I was conscious that no such list could be definitive . Some wars began with internal fighting but I selected the dates when they became international wars . Several wars - e.g. the Austrian - Sardinian wars ...
... wars : in assembling the dates I was conscious that no such list could be definitive . Some wars began with internal fighting but I selected the dates when they became international wars . Several wars - e.g. the Austrian - Sardinian wars ...
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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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