“Nobody Wanted Global Warming. But Nobody Wanted World War I Either”
Mickey Glantz and Gregory Pierce (CSU). January 1, 2011. HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Forty years ago, R.K. White wrote a book entitled “Nobody Wanted War” about the perceptions and the misperceptions that led to the war in Vietnam and other wars in history. Especially interesting is White’s discussion of the interrelationships and egocentricities across the empires of Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century that led to World War I, the so-called ‘war to end all wars’.
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