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History can be helpful in making sense of the world we live in. It can also be fascinating, even fun.

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In my view, Germany could and should have made reparations for its aggression in World War I – but was the risk of renewed war worth forcing it to do so?

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When I first read Barbara Tuchman’s ‘The Guns of August’ in the autumn of 1963, it was as though history went from black and white to Technicolor.

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May 14, 2024

When I first read Barbara Tuchman’s ‘The Guns of August’ in the autumn of 1963, it was as though history went from black and white to Technicolor.

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May 14, 2024

In my view, Germany could and should have made reparations for its aggression in World War I – but was the risk of renewed war worth forcing it to do so?

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