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The Culture of Defeat
Language: en
Pages: 420
Authors: Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-13 - Publisher: Metropolitan Books

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A fascinating look at history's losers-the myths they create to cope with defeat and the steps they take never to be vanquished again History may be written by
The Culture of Defeat
Language: en
Pages: 420
Authors: Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-04 - Publisher: Macmillan

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Focusing on three seminal cases of military defeat--the South after the Civil War, France in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War, and Germany following World Wa
The Culture of Defeat
Language: en
Pages: 422
Authors: Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-04-16 - Publisher: Macmillan

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From cathartic epidemics of "dance-madness" to the revolutions that so often follow battlefield humiliation, Schivelbusch finds remarkable similarities across c
Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-04-01 - Publisher: Turtleback Books

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Focusing on three seminal cases of military defeat--the South after the Civil War, France in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War, and Germany following World Wa
Liddell Hart and the Weight of History
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: John J. Mearsheimer
Categories: Military art and science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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This troubling book offers a striking illustration of how history can be used and abused--how a gifted individual can create their own self-serving version of t