the short war illusion

Nolan teaches military history at Boston University, where he is Director of International History Institute. The Allure of Battle A History of How Wars have been Won and Lost  was awarded the Gilder Lehrman Prize Military History . ..

world war ii – the first great ‘food war’

Clausewitz once observed that 'War is the continuation of politics by other means and, in 1920s  Weimar Republic Germany, the politics were very much about securing sufficient new land for the nation to thrive and to avoid repetition of the horrors of World War I starvation. ..

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