At the start of her Introduction, MacMillan quotes Belarussian journalist Svetlana Alexievich, 'War remains, as it always has been, one of the chief human mysteries', and confirms this at the end of the introduction, saying 'War is a mystery, and a terrifying one. That is why we must ...
I almost did not finish reading "War: How Conflict Shaped Us". It is not worth reading, but I worked through it anyway. Which is unfortunate as Margaret MacMillan can be an excellent writer of history. The two volumes of hers that I have read - "Paris 1919" and "The War That Ended ...
We have not kept in touch, and the last time I spoke with any of them would have been in 1978 when most of us graduated from high school. How many “did well” with life? How many are dead, or in jail, or homeless, or alcoholic? Any of them do something good for the world, ...
(2) How to quantify crop production reduction and the associated economic loss since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war? (3) What is the relationship between the war intensity and agricultural production loss? To this end, we focus on major crop types in Ukraine including wheat, maize, ...
UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations and its humanitarian partners made a plea on Thursday for 2.7 billion U.S. dollars to support the millions affected by the prolonged conflict in Yemen. The funds aim to provide life-saving assistance and protection to the 18.2 million ...
Knarre is the name she gives her mother’s family, the Grünwalds; Charlotte Knarre is the aunt for whom she is named, the aunt whose suicide four years before Salomon’s birth proved only the first in a series of deaths that shaped her life. In the next scene, Dr. Albert Kann, a...
Let’s see how this worked on a global scale over the last three bloody years. The disastrous evacuation of Kabul in August 2021 should have warned all of us we were dealing with foreign policy amateurs. The rush for the last planes was an expected unexpected event. Yet the Biden ...
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Victor Davis Hanson,The Second World Wars: how the first global conflict was fought and won (Basic Books, October 2017): World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket...
And to a point, that is compelling, as it instead urges audiences to focus on how an us-versus-them mentality can be as nebulous as it is dangerous. However, as was true in Men, Garland's epiphany feels shallow, as if delivered from an outsider looking in. ...