Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Thursday, 4 May 2023

Why did Britain starve to death one million German civilians in 1919?

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But the war ended at eleven o'clock on the eleventh of November 1918! We know this because we celebrate it every Remembrance Day. Not th...
Friday, 26 August 2022

Tumbling into war: 1914 and all that

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Remember the butterfly flapping its wings in a jungle clearing? The unpredictability of chaos where overwhelmingly the turbulence caused by ...
Saturday, 23 April 2022

Vranyo

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A blatant lie that it is necessary to believe. A substitute truth that forms an integral part of a fabricated reality. Vranyo say much about...
Saturday, 16 April 2022

Wars are like fires

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War is like a fire – if you do not put it out, it will burn itself out:  Sun Tzu, The Art of War   The fact...
Friday, 11 March 2022

Wars escalate to the level of violence necessary to obtain victory

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Having stayed in Lviv for a month and given a couple of lectures at the university, I feel the awfulness of this war in a more personal way....
Friday, 24 December 2021

La Belle Epoque

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 One of the problems when writing a history that spans across more than a hundred years is to find the right description for the periods inv...
Wednesday, 11 November 2015

The soldier as hero is an icon which we should fear.

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Reflections on the changing symbolism of the red poppy. “ Support our Heroes” the poster emblazoned with the poppy logo declared. On it, ...