
Show 52 Blueprint For Armageddon Iii
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Show 52 Blueprint For Armageddon Iii mentions Why Not Kill Them All? by Daniel Chirot and Clark McCauley, Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger, Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs, and Peace War by Gwen Dyer with timestamps, quotes, and episode context.
given the right circumstances, normal human beings are all too ready to kill by category.
Ernst Junger will call the storm of steel later in the war.
Philip Gibbs, in his absolutely groundbreaking work, now it can be told, was a journalist on the scene, as we said earlier, and unable to write about…
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“In their book, Why Not Kill Them All? Professors Daniel Chirot and Clark McCauley write that one of the downsides of this whole thing is that we act as though that bad man or that bad people committed this unusual act...”
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“Ernst Junger, who we've quoted the author of the Storm of Steel, one of the most unusual soldiers, in the First World War, because he kind of liked the war.”
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“Philip Gibbs, in his absolutely groundbreaking work, now it can be told, was a journalist on the scene, as we said earlier.”
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“Gwen Dyer in his famous Peace War talked about the Continuous Front, as he calls it, the First World War initiated.”
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“The stories recounted by author Winston Groom about a British soldier named Willie Frazier, who was wounded and captured during the war.”
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“Adolf Hitler wrote about his first encounter with combat in Flanders in his book, describing the romantic notions of battle that were replaced by horror.”
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“Churchill's fingerprints are all over this thing and this thing is going to go south fast. In Churchill's book, he does what almost any other person with any responsibility for World War I does in their post-war memoirs.”
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“Go look at the Old Testament of the Bible, a book that Jews, Christians, and Muslims all hold sacred. The God of the Old Testament orders genocide after genocide after genocide...”
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“The excerpt discusses the experiences of soldiers in World War I, which resonates with themes found in Ernst Jünger's 'A Storm of Steel', though not explicitly mentioned.”
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“Eugene Sledge, writing, you know, from the U.S. Marines talking about fighting in the Pacific, will talk about his particularly horrified feeling.”
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The host references 'Why Not Kill Them All?' to emphasize the disturbing reality that ordinary people can commit acts of violence under certain cir…

The host mentions 'Storm of Steel' by Ernst Junger to illustrate the brutal realities of World War I trench warfare. Junger's work encapsulates the…

The host references Philip Gibbs' book to highlight the horrific realities faced by soldiers during the First World War. Gibbs' vivid descriptions…
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