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What We Can Learn From World War II
« on: October 30, 2017, 11:47:00 am »
 What We Can Learn From World War II
Posted By Matthew Continetti On October 20, 2017 @ 4:59 am In Columns | No Comments

While visiting Hillsdale College this week, I was unexpectedly bequeathed a gift. When I arrived at the house where I am staying I discovered on the buffet table in the kitchen a small collection of books on military history, grand strategy, and World War II. Among them was the bound galley of Victor Davis Hanson's The Second World Wars, published Tuesday by Basic Books. Having heard advance praise for the book, I picked up the hefty galley. I have not put it down since.
 

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Re: What We Can Learn From World War II
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2017, 10:59:45 pm »
The only thing consistently learned form history is that most people don't learn from history. They are too busy distorting it to support their own ends to have an unbiased look at the errors of the past, and are thus doomed to repeat them.
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