Rabu, 30 November 2016

Fire for Effect: The Price of Peace

We’ve all heard that campus address declaring that graduation does not mark a conclusion, but a beginning. V-E Day was like that. We usually think of victory in World War II as an end: the final defeat of Adolf Hitler and minions, the crushing of Nazi ambitions for world domination, Europe unchained. Historians like to …

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