The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National AdvantageGood Press, 2019 M11 19 - 435 pages The Great Illusion is a work by Norman Angell. It attempts to provide an answer for one of the greatest problems in human history: War and the reasoning behind the need for it. |
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