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  1. Victor Davis Hanson _ The Second World Wars: How the

    The system rather than the man was what would win the war.
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  2. Victor Davis Hanson _ The Second World Wars: How the

    Nicholas Monsarrat's epic postwar novel of the Battle of the Atlantic, The Cruel Sea, is a quite different, nightmarish elemental story of men at sea amid
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  3. Victor Davis Hanson _ The Second World Wars: How the

    It proved almost impossible to square the circle of ensuring crew safety and comfort when trapped in a riveted or welded steel shell of stored gasoline, high-explosive shells and machine gun bullets, sparking engine plugs, and incoming projectiles.
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  4. Victor Davis Hanson _ The Second World Wars: How the

    Despite the far greater carnage between 1939 and 1945, seventy years later historians rarely write of the political or strategic futility of the Second World War as they so often do of the First. Apparently, losing sixty million for a subsequent general seventy-year peace and the end of nightmarish ideologies was defensible, while losing fifteen to twenty million for a twenty-one-year hiatus was sometimes not.
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  5. Victor Davis Hanson _ The Second World Wars: How the

    After September 1939, perhaps one billion of the world's roughly two billion population were soldiers, partisans, and producers engaged in trying to kill people.
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