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George Meredith: Selections on peace and war
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
George Meredith: Selections on peace and war
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George Meredith: Bellona’s mad halloo
George Meredith: The Olive Branch
George Meredith: On the Danger of War
George Meredith: War wife, as good as widowed
George Meredith: War’s rivers of blood no crown for future generations
Homer: Caging the terrible Lord of War
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