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Adrian Buck
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"The Germans' [U-boat] campaign was another illustration that ruthlessness and flouting international law brought worse than nothing." Worse still is that they will make all the same mistakes again more energetically in the 1980s. Interesting that Watson has adopted a German perspective and yet the Germans do not come out of it very well.
— Dec 22, 2015 12:37AM
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Adrian Buck
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"Wartime suffering was at the root of what one left-wing intellectual described ominously in 1929 as 'the wild and brutal atmosphere of hatred and revenge which is still the dominating current of Eastern Europe.'
— Dec 26, 2015 01:56AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 542 of 788
"On 24 October the revolution began when thousands of students went onto the streets of Budapest to demand peace, indrpendence, and a Károlyi government." The failed revolution we don't commemorate.
— Dec 26, 2015 01:46AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 537 of 788
"By the autumn, as the German army was forced back on the Western Front, it was clear that the last days of the Habsburg Empire were approaching."
— Dec 25, 2015 08:04AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 530 of 788
"The US army scattered over a million copies of a 'prisoner leaflet' that included a list of the ample rations served in its POW camps"
— Dec 25, 2015 01:42AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 502 of 788
"However, at the societal level, massive wartime deprivation, the result of total mobilisation and the British blockade, had a lasting and decisive impact on the ethnically mixed communities of east-central Europe."
— Dec 25, 2015 01:23AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 489 of 788
"'World history' had 'proven again and again that England takes everything from her vanquished and treats the poor, robbed people just as slaves'" Reichsbank pamphlet.
— Dec 24, 2015 02:48AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 465 of 788
"'The importance of coal, iron and food was unknown before the war'" Ludendorf
— Dec 24, 2015 02:44AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 455 of 788
"In fact, the Machivellian Minister President [Tisza] 's real aim was to secure Hungary's territorial integrity and privileged position." Bit of a theme, this.
— Dec 22, 2015 07:26AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 424 of 788
"For [the Kaiser] 'the war is the struggle between two world views: the Teutonic-German for morality, right, loyalty and faith, genuine humanity, truth and real freedom, against the Anglo-Saxon, the worship of Mammon, the power of money, pleasure, land-hunger, lies, betrayal, deceit and - last but not least - treacherous assassination!'".
— Dec 21, 2015 01:02PM
Adrian Buck
is on page 417 of 788
"...unlike continental powers, Britain neither grew nor stored large stocks of wheat, but instead fed its population through constant imports."
— Dec 21, 2015 12:13AM
