Unnecessary Wars.

'Australian governments find it easy to go to war. Their leaders seem to be able to withdraw with a calm conscience, answerable neither to God nor humanity.' Australia lost 600 men in the Boer War, a three-year conflict fought in the heart of Africa that had ostensibly nothing to do with A...

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Main Author: Reynolds, Henry
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Sydney, N.S.W. : University of New South Wales Press, 2016.
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