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Incrível a inconsciência da maior parte dos dirigentes europeus quanto ao poder absolutamente devastador das novas ferramentas militares, e sua crença numa pequena guerra curta ao estilo napoleônico, ou seja, do enfrentamento de exércitos num terreno delimitado.
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Colonial Folly, European SuicideAdam Hochschild: Why World War I Was Such a Blood BathBy ADAM HOCHSCHILD - The New York Times, JULY 28, 2014 Photo CreditRoss MacDonaldContinue reading the main storyShare This Page EMAILFACEBOOKTWITTERSAVEMOREContinue...
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1914: a Europa caminha alegremente para a guerra - Delanceyplace book excerpt
Incrível a inconsciência da maior parte dos dirigentes europeus quanto ao poder absolutamente devastador das novas ferramentas militares, e sua crença numa pequena guerra curta ao estilo napoleônico, ou seja, do enfrentamento de exércitos num terreno delimitado.
Elas não tinham consciência de que estavam iniciando uma guerra total, que depois se tornou global, e quase universal (o que seria o caso da Segunda Guerra), que ademais tinha os componentes ideológicos e raciais do nazismo hitlerista e do fascismo econômico.
Paulo Roberto de Almeida
Today's selection -- from A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914 to 1918 by G.J. Meyer. World leaders in 1914 did not understand how powerful their armies had become and how much destruction they would cause. In the centuries before the 1800s, world population had grown at a snail's pace. But between 1870 and the beginning of the first World War, the population of Europe had increased by 100,000,000, more than the total world population before 1650, the result of a technological revolution that improved life spans. But this technological revolution also produced unprecedented weaponry, and thus World War I unleashed destruction that would kill 8.5 million and wound in excess of 20 million more, many times the casualties of all the Napoleonic wars combined. As the war started, a young and naive Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, could not contain his excitement: "Russia's general mobilization ... called up the Russian reserves -- a staggering total of four million men, enough to frighten any nation on earth. ... "This was war on a truly new scale; the army with which Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo had totaled sixty thousand men. ... "The Germans ... hauled into Belgium ... two new kinds of monster artillery: 305 Skoda siege mortars ... plus an almost unimaginably huge 420 howitzer ... produced by Germany's Krupp steelworks, [that] weighed seventy-five tons and had to be transported by rail in five sections and set in concrete before going into action.
"Among the holders of high office, one man at least did not share the sense of glum foreboding: the ebullient ... young Winston Churchill ... he wrote to Prime Minister Asquith's wife ... 'I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment, and yet -- I can't help it -- I enjoy every second of it.' "
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 Author: G.J. Meyer Publisher: Delacorte Press a division of Random House Copyright 2006 by G.J. Meyer Pages 74, 77, 127, 133If you use the above link to purchase a book, delanceyplace proceeds from your purchase will benefit a children's literacy project. All delanceyplace profits are donated to charity. |
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- Voce Ja Viu Uma Explosao Nuclear? Entao Veja Algumas - Delanceyplace
Today's selection -- from Area 51 by Annie Jacobsen. In the summer of 1946, Alfred O'Donnell witnessed Operation Crossroads, a series of two nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States on the Bikini Atoll...
- China-eua: Iii Guerra Mundial? (imperios Sao Paranoicos Por Natureza) - New Book From Harvard
A century ago, Europe's diplomats mismanaged the crisis triggered by the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and the continent soon plunged into World War I, which killed millions, toppled dynasties, and destroyed empires. Almost as soon...
- Historia Economica Dos Estados Unidos: A Primeira Economia Mundial desde 1870 (delanceyplace)
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Colonial Folly, European SuicideAdam Hochschild: Why World War I Was Such a Blood BathBy ADAM HOCHSCHILD - The New York Times, JULY 28, 2014 Photo CreditRoss MacDonaldContinue reading the main storyShare This Page EMAILFACEBOOKTWITTERSAVEMOREContinue...
- Dia 11 De Novembro Na Historia: Armisticio Na Grande Guerra...
...que não era conhecida como Primeira Guerra Mundial até vir a Segunda. Ainda estamos esperando a Terceira... Armistice Day November 11th was originally called Armistice Day because it was on this day in 1918 that the First World War came to an end....