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A Short History of the 2nd World War, Strategicus: 1950: Geopolitics
A Short History of the 2nd World War, Strategicus: 1950: Geopolitics
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A Short History of the Second World War: And its Social & Political Significance
By Strategicus.
Published by Faber & Faber, London, c1950. Hardback cover, 345 pages. Black & white maps interspersed throughout.
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Overall fair condition - see photos. Some fading to spine. Denting to corners, commensurate with age. Small Inscription to free end paper. Otherwise no names or writing.
"In this short history of the Second World War I have attempted to give as full an account of the great campaigns as my space permits while concentrating the attention on the purpose of all wars - the removal of those conditions that brought it about. Unless this is achieved war is completely meaningless; and this can be better seen in the recent struggle than ever before. Even now it is impossible to cast up the sum of human misery it loosed upon the world. What Christendom had so laboriously achieved in the years before the First World War may have been far from ideal and its tenure more precarious than we realized. But the recent war ploughed up its very roots over a great part of the area which it had transformed; and we do well to mark this terrible fact. It is a milestone in the world's history; and it behoves us to face the possibility of another and final milestone on the decline into primitive barbarism, none the less appalling because it may hold out the prospect of some distant material amelioration.
The prelude, therefore, takes up an appreciable amount of my space and, though the selection of the facts may be considered arbitrary, it is the result of careful thought. Similarly, there is some emphasis, throughout the book, on the human suffering which cast its net so much more widely than ever before. And there is finally more than usual attention paid to the astonishing difference between the West and the East as to the importance of the political end of the war as the final determinant of strategy."
(Bindery A5)
