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With few exceptions Continental military thinkers ignored the instructional value of the American Civil War , regarding this as a mere war of amateurs . Here , at least , British military thought ...
With few exceptions Continental military thinkers ignored the instructional value of the American Civil War , regarding this as a mere war of amateurs . Here , at least , British military thought ...
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In spite of the universal conviction that a war would be a matter of life or death to Germany , and in spite also of the fact that , at any rate in military circles , we reckoned on & war on two fronts , that is to say with a numerical ...
In spite of the universal conviction that a war would be a matter of life or death to Germany , and in spite also of the fact that , at any rate in military circles , we reckoned on & war on two fronts , that is to say with a numerical ...
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It might have warned them of the danger of sacrificing big political advantages for immediate military gains , and the danger of antagonising neutrals or of failing to enlist possible allies . Moreover , once the opening moves had ended ...
It might have warned them of the danger of sacrificing big political advantages for immediate military gains , and the danger of antagonising neutrals or of failing to enlist possible allies . Moreover , once the opening moves had ended ...
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THE KAISER AFTER TWENTYFIVE YEARS | 1 |
Who was Merlin | 7 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 253 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1929 |
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