Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire
Meanwhile, Germany was moving up the hierarchical ladder, and the German leaders were gripped by the testosterone high that makes a nation belligerent. Friedrich Naumann was typical of those who gloated over Teutonic good fortune. He said, “The German race brings it. It brings army, navy, money and power. . . . Modern, gigantic instruments of power
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In one of the most notable statements of modern history, the remarkable UK prime minister Winston Churchill called for the New World, “with all its power and might,” to step forth “to the rescue and the liberation of the old.” Franklin Roosevelt, arguably the greatest president in American history, heeded that call. The industrial power of the Unit
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A country which has lost two world wars, undergone three revolutions, committed the crimes of the Nazi era, and seen its material wealth wiped out twice in a generation, is bound to suffer from deep psychological scars. There is an atmosphere of hysteria, a tendency toward unbalanced actions. A German friend, a creative writer, said to me that Germ
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With the collapse of the Soviet Union, its external empire, comprising Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania, became truly independent. What had been the Soviet Union for three-quarters of a century—its internal empire—dissolved into Russia and an additional fourteen countries, including Kazakhstan and the ot
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