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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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List of Maps | |
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List of Abbreviations | |
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Introduction: What is Europe? | |
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Europe as a Cultural Conception | |
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The Idea of Europe and Christianity | |
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The European Ideal Becomes Secularized | |
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Hegemony versus Consensus | |
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The Ideal of Unity between the Two World Wars | |
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The European Concept during the Late Twentieth Century | |
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A Post-Cold War Perspective | |
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Bibliographical Essay | |
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The European Age | |
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December 14, 1900 | |
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The Twentieth Century: Science and Ideology | |
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European Society | |
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Changing Cultural and Political Outlooks | |
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Bibliographical Essay | |
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Biographical Sketches | |
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Anna Kuliscioff Cofounder of Italian Socialism | |
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Max Planck An Upright German | |
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The Democracies and their Dilemmas | |
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Britain: Accommodation and Militancy | |
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France Muddles Through | |
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Italian Democracy in the Making | |
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Bibliographical Essay | |
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Biographical Sketches | |
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Emmeline Pankhurst "Votes for Women!" | |
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Jean-Joseph-Marie-Auguste Jaures Martyr | |
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The Authoritarian States | |
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The German Empire: Greater Prussia | |
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"That Ramshackle Realm": Austria-Hungary | |
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Imperial Russia: "Institutions Are of No Importance" | |
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Bibliographical Essay | |
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Biographical Sketches | |
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Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albrecht of Hohenzollern Failure | |
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Karl Lueger Mayor of Vienna | |
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Foreign Policies | |
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Britain: Managing Decline | |
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World Policy (Weltpolitik) | |
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France's Lost Provinces | |
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Showdown in the Balkans | |
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Italy Searches for Security | |
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Bibliographical Essay | |
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Biographical Sketches | |
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Theophile Delcasse Warrior Diplomat | |
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Francis Joseph of Hapsburg Unlucky | |
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European Peripheries | |
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Scandinavia: An Ideal Unity | |
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Different Roads: The Low Countries | |
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The Making of a Conservative: Switzerland | |
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The Iberian States | |
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Southeastern Europe | |
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Bibliographical Essay | |
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Biographical Sketches | |
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Niels Henrik David Bohr "Uncle Nick" | |
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Emile Vandervelde Evolutionary Socialist | |
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End of Hegemony | |
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World War | |
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Imperialism and Diplomacy: From Crisis to Crisis | |
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History of a History: Causes of World War ICombat! | |
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The Home Fronts | |
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The War Ends | |
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Bibliographical Essay | |
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Biographical Sketches | |
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Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley A Casualty of War | |
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Erich Maria Remarque "But now, for the first time, people learned what it was really like" | |
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War's Immediate Impact: Russian and Other Revolutions | |
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War and the Russian Revolutions | |
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The German Revolution | |
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End of the War in Germany | |
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The Struggle for Power | |
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Foundation of the Weimar Republic | |
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Revolution in Austria | |
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The Hungarian Revolution | |
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Continuous Rebellion: Artists and Scientists | |
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Bibliographical Essay | |
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Biographical Sketches | |
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Vladimir Ilych Ulyanov A Sealed Train | |
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Rosa Luxemburg Marxist Martyr | |
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The Consequences of The Peace | |
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The Paris Peace Conference | |
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The Territorial Consequences | |
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Economic Consequences | |
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The Moral Consequences | |
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The League of Nations | |
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Bibliographical Essay | |
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Biographical Sketches | |
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Georges Clemenceau Tiger | |
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Sidney Sonnino Failed Diplomatist | |
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Hard Landings: From Crisis to False Prosperity | |
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Britain: Back to 1914 | |
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France's Quest for Security | |
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Italy: From "Red Biennium" to Fascism | |
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Weimar's Three Original Sins | |
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The USSR: The Crisis of NEP | |
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Bibliographical Essay | |
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Biographical Sketches | |
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John Maynard Keynes Savior of Capitalism | |
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Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini Young Rebel | |
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An Age of Dictators | |
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The Great Depression and The Liberal Democracies | |
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The Great Depression | |
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British Democracy | |
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Troubled France | |
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Scandinavia: Toward Social Democracy | |
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Marking Time: The Low Countries and Switzerland | |
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Bibliographical Essay | |
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Biographical Sketches | |
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James Ramsay Mac | |
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Donald Labour's "Nonperson" Prime Minister | |
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Leon Blum Popular Front | |
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The Crisis of Democracy in Eastern and Southern Europe | |
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The Victors of the Versailles Settlement | |
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The Versailles Settlement's Losers | |
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The Aegean and the Adriatic | |
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Iberia | |
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Bibliographical Essay | |
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Biographical Sketches | |
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Josef Klemens Pilsudski Polish Dictator | |
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Thomas Garrigue Masaryk European Democrat | |
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Mussolini's Fascism | |
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Fascist Practice | |
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Fascist Ideology | |
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Bibliographical Essay | |
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Biographical Sketches | |
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Edmondo Rossoni Fascist Labor | |
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Margherita Sarfatti "Dictator of the Figurative Arts" | |
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Stalin's Communism | |
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Communist Ideology | |
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Communist Practice | |
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Bibliographical Essay | |
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Biographical Sketches | |
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Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin Communist Theoretician | |
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Alexandra Mikhaylovna Kollontai "Red Rose of the Revolution" | |
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The Nazi Assault on Weimar | |
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Weimar's Crumbling Support | |
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Ascent of the Nazi Party | |
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The Collapse of Weimar | |
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Installing the Dictatorship | |
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Bibliographical Essay | |
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Biographical Sketches | |
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Adolf Hitler Down and Out in Vienna | |
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Franz von Papen Politico | |
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Hitler's Nazism | |
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Foundations of Nazism | |
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Kristallnacht | |
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Nazi Theory and Practice | |
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Everyday Life | |
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Bibliographical Essay | |
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Biographical Sketches | |
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Gertrud Scholtz-Klink Unrepentant! | |
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Hermann Goering Nazi Chieftain | |
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Interwar Society and Culture | |
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Society | |
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Entertainment and High Culture | |
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Technology and Society | |
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Pure Science: Revolution and Travail | |
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Bibliographical Essay | |
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Biographical Sketches | |
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Ettore Majorana The Enduring Mystery | |
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Lise Meitner The Role of Insight | |
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Diplomacy between The Wars: The Collapse of Peace | |
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The Continent in the 1920s | |
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Correcting Versailles | |
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The Hitler Revolution | |
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From Crisis to Crisis | |
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A New War | |
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Bibliographical Essay | |
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Biographical Sketches | |
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Gustav Stresemann Fulfillment | |
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Aristide Briand Man of Peace, "Father of Europe" | |
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The German Tide over Europe | |
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Confrontation | |
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German Successes | |
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The Home Fronts | |
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Bibliographical Essay | |
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Biographical Sketches | |
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Heinz Wilhelm Guderian Panzer General | |
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Maurice Gustave Gamelin Historical Footnote | |
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Inside Hitler's Europe: Military Occupation and Genocide | |
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Short and Long-Term Aims | |
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Military Occupation in the East | |
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Military Occupation in the West | |
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The Holocaust | |
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Genocide | |
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How The War was Won | |
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Weapons | |
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Battles | |
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Resistance | |
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The Future | |
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Ideology: Nationalism's Handmaiden? | |
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Bibliographical Essay | |
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Biographical Sketches | |
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Erwin Rommel The Desert Fox | |
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Bernard Law Montgomery Hero of El Alamein | |