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I Wouldn't Start From Here: The Twentieth Century And Where It All Went Wrong

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I Wouldn't Start From Here: The Twentieth Century And Where It All Went Wrong - Mueller, Andrew
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With considerable skill, Mueller skids around the globe from failed state to ravaged war zone to desolate no-man's-land, from Beirut to Basra via Belfast and Bihac, to try to unpick why we humans seem so prone to plucking war from the jaws of peace, why so much that can go wrong does go wrong, over and over again, and how and why some conflicts suddenly, quietly, inexplicably seem to find themselves solved. It's a surprisingly sunny book given the mire in which he finds himself. And it is a notably entertaining and eye ...

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I Wouldn't Start From Here: The Twentieth Century And Where It All Went Wrong 2008, Granta Books, London

ISBN-13: 9781846271519

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