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Why humanity's appetite for war will never be sated; Richard Overy, one of our finest military historians, turns from the facts of warfare to the ideas behind it in his compelling book Why War?

• Source: The Telegraph Online. June 13, 2024

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No, humanity's lust for war will never be sated. In this compelling study, Richard Overy, one of our finest military historians, turns from the facts of warfare to the ideas behind it.

• Source: Daily Telegraph (London, England). July 6, 2024 14.

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What makes Elon Musk tick? I spent months following the same people as him to find out who fuels his curious worldview; Tucker Carlson, Greta Thunberg, Covid sceptics, military historians, the royal family ... What would my time immersed in the Twitter/X owner's feed reveal about the richest man in the world?

• Source: The Guardian (London, England). September 23, 2023

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Pie in the sky? As battle of Britain Day approaches Brian James has been finding out why some of today's leading military historians argue that it was not the RAF but the Royal Navy that saved Britain in 1940.

• Authors : James, Brian

• Source: History Today. September, 2006, Vol. 56 Issue 9, p38, 3 p.

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FORGOTTEN BATTLE, REMEMBERED SOLDIERS; Once an obscure conflict only familiar to dedicated military historians, a project backed by Governor-General David Johnston has revived public interest in the Battle of Hill 70. A Canadian monument to the battle is set to open on Tuesday and for the families of those who fell, it's a long time coming. Roy MacGregor reports

• Source: Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada). August 21, 2017, A6

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QUB professor was one of the world's top military historians; Obituary

• Source: Belfast Telegraph (Belfast, Northern Ireland). Feb 17, 2016, 20

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Vote for Britain's greatest battle; From Naseby and Waterloo to the Somme and D-Day, military historians are trying to identify the greatest battle in British history

• Source: The Telegraph Online. Jan 20, 2013

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Polish historians bid to dig up British Second World War tank; Military historians in Poland are struggling to salvage a rare British tank that has lain at the bottom of a Polish river since January 1945

• Source: The Telegraph Online. Oct 25, 2012

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THE FALKLANDS FLIGHT; Once, the way to Stanley was with the RAF out of Brize Norton or on a wind-buffeted Twin Otter crewed by Croats. Now, a sparkling new Boeing conveys wildlife watchers, military historians and the curious to the islands in style. Hugh O'Shaughnessy reports

• Authors : O'Shaughnessy, Hugh

• Source: The Independent on Sunday (London, England). April 28, 1996, 50

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What If? Military Historians Imagine What Might Have been

• Authors : Sked, Alan

• Source: Spectator. May 13, 2000, Vol. 284 Issue 8962, p34, 1 p.

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