In the San Francisco bay area and graduated from the university of california at davis. His sophomore year, he took a semester off and travel to europe. There, he developed a lifelong passion for history which took him to Northwestern University where he earned his phd. He spent much of his career at Vanderbilt University in tennessee, where he developed a strong interest in the civil war. The professorame of history at the university of South Carolina. He enjoyed numerous years of overseas teaching and experiences. He was a fulbright professor of American History three times, in rome, genoa, and rio de janeiro. He talked one year at the university of leeds in england. He has spent a good deal of time traveling in europe and latin america. Hored seven books in addition to numerous articles, blogs and guest oped pieces. Several of his pieces for the New York Times came out of the research for the cause of all nations. He has written for salon. Com, usa today, and other popular journals.
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Four years from nine hundred fourteen to nineteen eighteen in europe seemed on course to destroy itself. On august the fourth one thousand nine hundred fourteen germany invaded belgium. Most of the worlds major powers was soon drawn into the conflict. By the time the war ended almost forty nations in Europe Africa the middle east and east asia were involved. The socalled rich war was fought with unprecedented destructive power a turtle of more than sixteen Million People were killed. Parts of belgium and northern france were devastated. The austrian writer stefan zweig said the war had affected him deeply. All the pale horses of the apocalypse have stormed through my life including revolution starvation and epidemics above all nationalism has poisoned our flourishing european culture. In france alone at one point four million soldiers were killed. The allied powers including the British Empire france the United States belgium italy and serbia had defeated the central powers the german
Austrian writer stefan zweig said that the war had affected him deeply. All the pale horses of the apocalypse have stormed into my life revolution and famine terror epidemics and the nationalism that has poisoned the flowering of our european culture. An estimated forty Million People were killed in the wall entire towns and villages were destroyed some farm fields were polluted by poison gas. Large amounts of unexploded ordnance posed a real threat to life and limb. These materials including artillery shells had to be removed by hand. These farmers are clearing away munitions in the peak of the region of france. People simply tried to make the best of a bad situation. The. French authorities ordered captured german soldiers to clear minefields a clear violation of the hague conventions which outlined the basic rights of prisoners. During the war france captured more than three hundred thousand german troops. In which coulter was sent to a prisoner of war camp at sweet dung. They seem
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