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26 cze 2024 · A powerful new book shows why it's so important to understand war. In his latest book, Why War?, historian Richard Overy grapples with a question that stumped Albert Einstein and...
Historians like Richard F. Hamilton and Holger H. Herwig created a list of eight world wars, including the two generally agreed-upon world wars, the Seven Years' War, and five others: the Nine Years' War (1689–1697), the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714), the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748), the French Revolutionary ...
Looking at every facet of war from biology to belief, psychology to security, Overy allows readers to understand the many contradictory or self-reinforcing ways in which warfare can suddenly appear a legitimate option, and why it is likely to be part of our future as well as our past. Read more.
1914 – First World War: Allied forces began engaging German troops at the First Battle of Ypres. 1987 – Iran–Iraq War: U.S. Navy forces destroyed two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf in response to an Iranian missile attack on a Kuwaiti oil tanker three days earlier.
19 lut 2024 · Books. From Homer to Gaza, the History of Books in Wartime. Nazis burned books; the U.S. shipped them to its troops; Alexander the Great, Hitler, and Stalin were keen bibliophiles. How to...
5 lip 2024 · Nurture fought back after the slaughter of the world wars, the Holocaust and the nuclear bombing of Japan.
The Second Nagorno-Karabakh war—fought between Armenia and Azerbaijan between September 24 and November 10, 2020—was the first war in history won primarily by unmanned systems. This 44-day war resulted in a decisive military victory for Azerbaijan.
