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Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace, Revised and Enlarged Edition

by Edward N. Luttwak

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by B.H. Liddell Hart

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Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse

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The Gathering Storm, 1948 (Winston S. Churchill The Second World Wa Book 1) by Winston S. Churchill

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The whole life-energy of the greatest nations had been poured out in wrath and slaughter. The war leaders assembled in Paris had been borne thither upon the strongest and most furious tides that have ever flowed in human history.

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