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6 days ago · Retaliation is difficult to mount with the collapse of communications. Uncertain what to do, military mobilisation is ordered across the Western world, but Russia and China demand that it ceases ...
Jun 22, 2024 · In Why War?, Richard Overy draws upon his lifetime as a war historian to summarise what research across multiple disciplines can tell us about the causes and motives for war. The result is an ...
Jun 13, 2024 · Richard Overy is unquestionably one of our finest living historians, especially of 20th-century warfare. For some reason, he is perhaps not as lauded as he should be despite...
Jun 2, 2024 · As Richard Overy points out in Why the Allies Won, the Allies had population numbers and raw-materials tonnages on their side. By 1943, they had built 151,000 aircraft against the Axis...
Nov 22, 2023 · In Blood Ruins, Richard Overy contends the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria was the start of an Asian war that later merged into the 1939 war in Europe when Japan attacked America in 1939. The book addresses policy and strategy as well as operational, technical, and tactical issues.
Jun 19, 2024 · Why War? by Richard Overy. If it is axiomatic that jaw jaw is better than war war why, over millennia, has military confrontation so often been seen as the preferred option? This is the question that the renowned military historian Richard Overy sets out to answer in Why War?.
Nov 22, 2023 · In Blood Ruins, Richard Overy contends the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria was the start of an Asian war that later merged into the 1939 war in Europe when Japan attacked America. The book addresses policy and strategy as well as operational, technical, and tactical issues. Read Now. Keywords: Imperialism, China, Japan, Poland, World War II.
Jun 4, 2024 · Showing remarkable range, Richard Overy explores the title question throughout human history. He reconstructs long-ago conflicts among hunter-gatherers from Africa to the Americas using skeletal and climatological evidence of the Neolithic period.
Aug 25, 2023 · With regard to the war period, Richard Overy describes an attempt by the regime to limit opportunities for consumption of as large a part of the population as possible to a level just above subsistence.
Jun 4, 2024 · Richard Overy draws on a lifetime's study of conflict, studying every facet of war from biology to belief, psychology to security, to allow listeners to understand the many contradictory or self-reinforcing ways in which warfare can suddenly appear a legitimate option....
