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Did Emanuel Lasker write a book declaring that Germany had to win World War I if civilization were to be saved?
Emanuel Lasker, the second chess world champion, was a very interesting person. I read here that
During World War I, Lasker […] invested all of his money in
German war bonds. At the end of ...
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Why did German troops perform this parade near Szászház, in September 1916?
I'm reading "Last Night of Love, First night of War" by Camil Petrescu. In the book, the author says that when the Germans fought against Romanians in front of Szászház village, before the fight, the ...
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Which college president nearly finished a book in 1914 that argued that there would be no more wars?
In 1954, Presbyterian theologian Gordon Clark published a brief essay in which he criticized the moral optimism of the pre-WWI era. He included the following intriguing tidbit:
In the summer of ...
