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P. Clark Souers

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Influences
My influences are history books. Tons of them; ever changing.

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I am a 76-year-old PhD weapons scientist still working full time, who wrote this book in his spare time. My only qualification is that WWI created WWII, which created the Cold War, which gave me my job. A lifetime in the shadow of the Cold War has given me my preoccupation with Russia as the Central Asian power against which the West has pushed for the last century. My father was a Professor of English, who claimed that scientists were illiterate, which is not altogether wrong, but I did learn the basics that allowed me to write this. As a Medievalist, he always compared scientists with priests.
The idea for this book came from collecting postage stamps all my life. When I was young, the “dead countries” seemed exotic. But many of them have
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WWI's Modern Influence

World War I is getting minor attention because a hundred years have passed. However, its immense importance in shaping the modern world, bigger than WWII, is largely unappreciated. Four old empires fell and all the places they ruled suddenly had a chance to become free but instead were devoured by new superpowers. In 2015, the names of the places along the WWI battle line are reappearing daily: Es Read more of this blog post »
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Published on June 04, 2015 07:11 Tags: world-war-1
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