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		<title>John Oxenham: “War is the devil,” said the man soberly, and hurried on</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war ==== John Oxenham1914 &#8220;Is there going to be another war? How ripping!” “Honor!” said her mother reprovingly. “Well, I don’t mean that, of course. But a war does make lively papers, doesn’t it? I’m sick of Ireland and suffragettes.” “If [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Edward Bulwer-Lytton: Was there no glory to be gained in fields more magnificent than those of war?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Edward Bulwer-Lytton: Selections on peace and war ==== Edward Bulwer-LyttonEugene Aram &#8220;The soldier receives his pay, and murthers, and sleeps sound, and men applaud. But you say he smites not for pay, but glory. Granted &#8211; though a sophism. But [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thomas Curtis Clark: Our minds can scarce believe our forefathers strove as very beasts, in blood</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Thomas Curtis Clark:&#160;Apparitions Thomas Curtis Clark: Bugle Song of&#160;Peace Thomas Curtis Clark: Who made&#160;war? ==== Thomas Curtis ClarkProspect War will not always be.A time will surely comeWhen men will pause and say;&#8220;In this, the fair todayOur minds can scarce [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Frederic Manning: &#8220;Let them as made the war come an&#8217; fight it, that&#8217;s what a say.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Frederic Manning: Selections on war ==== Frederic ManningThe Middle Parts of Fortune &#8220;Aye,&#8221; said Madeley, bitterly; &#8220;an&#8217; what good will all your prayin&#8217; do you? If there were any truth in religion, would there be a war, would God let [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>E. Merrill Root: And they died in what forgotten war?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war E. Merrill Root: Drill, like sheep with wolves’ fangs, meek to&#160;kill E. Merrill Root: Military drill. Murder’s witless&#160;marionettes. ==== E. Merrill RootThe Mountain of Skeletons A mountain strikes into a clouded sky,Abrupt and black. Its crags are cold and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Edward Bulwer-Lytton: From the soldier&#8217;s mouth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Edward Bulwer-Lytton: Selections on peace and war ==== Edward Bulwer-LyttonEugene Aram As a diplomatist and a statesman, he was of the old and erroneous school of intriguers; but his favourite policy was the science of conciliation. He was one who [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>John Oxenham: The Reaper</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war John Oxenham: The Stars’&#160;Accusal John Oxenham: Thank God For&#160;Peace! ==== John OxenhamThe Reaper All through the blood-red Autumn,When the harvest came to the full;When the days were sweet with sunshine,And the nights were wonderful, &#8211;The Reaper reaped without ceasing. All [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Frederic Manning: From tragic heroes to mere derelicts in a wrecked and dilapidated world</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Frederic Manning: Selections on war ==== Frederic ManningThe Middle Parts of Fortune He was thinking of his wife and children, of the comparative security in which he had left them, and of what their fate might be in the worst [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Hermann Hagedorn: The Pyres</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Hermann Hagedorn: Selections against&#160;war ==== Hermann HagedornThe Pyres Pyres in the night, in the night!And the roaring yellow and red.Trooper, trooper, why so white?We are out to gather our dead.We have brought dry boughs from the bloody woodAnd the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>H. M. Tickener: What of the empires that are built on beds of dead men&#8217;s bones?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== H. M. TickenerThe Reddened Road What of the empires that are built on beds of dead men&#8217;s bones,What of the piles of princely pomp, the palaces and thrones?With none to blow the bugle blast to call the dogs [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Frederic Manning: Out of one bloody misery into another, until we break</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Frederic Manning: Selections on war ==== Frederic ManningThe Middle Parts of Fortune …the air was alive with the rush and flutter of wings; it was ripped by screaming shells, hissing like tons of molten metal plunging suddenly into water, there [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Demosthenes: The arithmetic of war and peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Greek and Roman writers on war and peace Demosthenes: When war comes home, the fatal weaknesses of states are revealed ==== DemosthenesAgainst AristocratesTranslated by J. H. Vince …it is inconceivable that Cersobleptes would ever deliberately provoke your enmity be trying to rob you of the Chersonesus, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Louis Couperus: &#8220;There&#8217;s war, injustice. And what do we do? Nothing.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Dutch writers on war and peace Louis Couperus: Peace! The pure, immaculate ideal suddenly streamed like a silver banner. Louis Couperus: The peace speech ==== Louis CouperusThe Twilight of the SoulsTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos &#8220;Lord, my dear chap, there&#8217;s blood sticking to everything; the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thomas Babington Macaulay: Such a fiend is an army</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 04:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Thomas Babington Macaulay: Selections on war ==== Thomas Babington MacaulayA Conversation between Mr Abraham Cowley and Mr John Milton, touching the Great Civil War &#8220;It was believed, of old, that there were some devils easily raised but never to be [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Upton Sinclair: The real horrors of war didn’t begin until it was over</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Upton Sinclair: Selections on war ==== Upton SinclairWorld’s End The battle of Ypres was opened by the British firing a hundred and ten million dollars’ worth of ammunition. “Jesse is an out-and-out revolutionist. He blames all the trouble on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thomas Babington Macaulay: Evil that man should live only by destroying and by exposing himself to be destroyed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Aristophanes: A way to end this war &#8211; say at what price?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Greek and Roman writers on war and peace Aristophanes: Rescuing Peace August Wilhelm Schlegel: Aristophanes, tragedian of&#160;peace ==== AristophanesLysistrataTranslated by Laurence Housman LYSISTRATA…now on every hand, State against State, we waste ourselves in war. Soon shall the breed of Sparta be no more Than a mere [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Upton Sinclair: She didn’t care who won, if only the fighting would end</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Upton Sinclair: Selections on war ==== Upton SinclairWorld’s End He explained how the great financial interests, the steel cartels, the oil and electrical trusts, and the banks which financed them, controlled both France and Germany. They owned properties in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Arkady Gaidar: &#8220;We&#8217;ve had enough of it, we&#8217;re fed up with this war&#8221;</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Russian writers on peace and war Arkady Gaidar: Then God would say, what made you plunge these millions of peoples into war for? ==== Arkady GaidarThe SchoolTranslated by Bernard Isaacs Nothing was to be heard about the war ending. The town was full of refugees, as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Upton Sinclair: He hated this war, and all wars, now and forever</title>
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		<title>Upton Sinclair: Secret undeclared wars</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Upton Sinclair: Selections on war ==== Upton SinclairWorld’s End Robbie’s talks to his son were history lessons, repeated until the lad understood them thoroughly. He told how in the last great war Germany had conquered France, and imposed a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Upton Sinclair: American people asked to shed their blood to make the world safe for war loans!</title>
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		<title>Upton Sinclair: Few men could contemplate the possibility of wholesale bloodshed in Europe</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Nobel prize in literature recipients on peace and&#160;war John Steinbeck: Hard to remember how it was when you killed men or ordered them to be killed ==== John SteinbeckThe Moon Is Down Captain Loft thought and believed that a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Upton Sinclair: What can we, the people do? How can we bring Peace, Justice, Truth and Law to the world?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Upton Sinclair: Selections on war ==== Upton Sinclair100%: the Story of a Patriot “It’s because of this hideous war!” she declared. “We’ve gone to war to make the world safe for democracy, and meantime we have to sacrifice every [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>John Steinbeck: Hard to remember how it was when you killed men or ordered them to be killed</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Nobel prize in literature recipients on peace and&#160;war John Steinbeck: One of the tendencies of the military mind is an inability to see beyond the killing ==== John SteinbeckThe Moon Is Down Lanser had been in Belgium and France [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Upton Sinclair: Millions of men were organized in armies, engaged in slaughtering one another</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Upton Sinclair: Selections on war ==== Upton Sinclair100%: the Story of a Patriot In the papers next morning appeared the usual details from Flanders; thousands of men being shot to pieces almost every hour of the day and night, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thomas Babington Macaulay: Gratuitously cutting throats in Asia and America</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Thomas Babington Macaulay: Selections on war ==== Thomas Babington MacaulayEssay on William Pitt, Earl of Chatham Pitt was Secretary of State, with the direction of the war and of foreign affairs. Thus the filth of all the noisome and pestilential [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>William Makepeace Thackeray: Would rather have written Gray&#8217;s Elegy than have won a battle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war William Makepeace Thackeray: Selections on war ==== William Makepeace ThackerayThe Virginians Harry, when he was away from his duty, was never tired of hearing Mr. Wolfe&#8217;s details of the military operations of the last year….The young General had the romance [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>William Makepeace Thackeray: Not Heaven, but some other power willed them to slaughter each other</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war William Makepeace Thackeray: Selections on war ==== William Makepeace ThackerayThe Virginians …that tremendous slaughtering-match of Leuthen, which the Prussian king played a month afterwards….Couldmy jaunty, yellow park-phaeton run counter to that grim chariot of thundering war? Could my meek little [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>William Makepeace Thackeray: True love is better than glory, and books than arms</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war William Makepeace Thackeray: Selections on war ==== William Makepeace ThackerayThe Virginians (James Wolfe, later a general, would die at the Battle of Quebec in 1759) “And glory and honour?” asked Warrington, “are those nothing? and would you give up the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thomas Babington Macaulay: Taxes to effect wild schemes of foreign conquest</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Thomas Babington Macaulay: Selections on war ==== Thomas Babington MacaulaySir William Temple There is a vile phrase of which bad historians are exceedingly fond, “the dignity of history.” One writer is in possession of some anecdotes which would illustrate most [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Leonid Andreyev: Listen to the barking of Mars!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 06:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Russian writers on peace and war Leonid Andreyev: The Red Laugh Leonid Andreyev: They make wars and kill one another William Lyon Phelps: No more terrible protest against war has ever been written than Andreyev’s ==== &#8220;Do you know, Wondergood, that the whole of Europe is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Charlotte M. Yonge: The snow fell far from bloodless</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 06:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Women writers on peace and war ==== Charlotte M. YongeGrisly Grisell; Or, The Laidly Lady of Whitburn: A Tale of the Wars of the Roses They were not molested by the war, which was decidedly a war of battles, not [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>F. Marion Crawford: Perfect instance of a ruthless military despotism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 23:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war F. Marion Crawford: Selections on war ==== F. Marion CrawfordMr. Isaacs, A Tale of Modern India India, under the kindly British rule, is a perfect instance of a ruthless military despotism, where neither blood nor stratagem have been spared [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thomas Babington Macaulay: What it is the nature of armies to become</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Thomas Babington Macaulay: Selections on war ==== Thomas Babington MacaulayJohn Hampden Was it not probable that this army might become, what it is the nature of armies to become, what so many armies formed under much more favourable circumstances have [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Katharine Lee Bates: This war, this blasphemy that blots the globe with blood</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 19:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Women writers on peace and war Katharine Lee Bates: Selections on war and&#160;peace ==== Katharine Lee BatesHow Long? How long, O Prince of Peace, how long? We sicken of the shameOf this wild war that wraps the world, a roaring [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Eden Phillpotts: We are suffering from a sort of universal shell shock</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Eden Phillpotts: Not exactly inhuman. The war changed the face of the world forever. ==== Eden PhillpottsThe Red Redmaynes &#8220;Men do their best for two things, Albert,” replied Mr. Ganns. &#8220;For love and for hate; and without these tremendous incitements [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Katharine Lee Bates: Have horses, then, no God?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 19:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Women writers on peace and war Katharine Lee Bates: Selections on war and&#160;peace ==== Katharine Lee BatesThe Horses &#8216;Thus far 80,000 horses have been shipped from the United States to theEuropean belligerents.&#8217; What was our share in the sinning,That [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Eden Phillpotts: Not exactly inhuman. The war changed the face of the world forever.</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Eden Phillpotts: We are suffering from a sort of universal shell shock ==== Eden PhillpottsThe Red Redmaynes &#8220;Then broke the war, on those awful days in August, and the face of the world changed &#8211; I suppose forever.&#8221; *** &#8220;I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Katharine Lee Bates: We&#8217;re only mules that suffered so, contraband of war</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Women writers on peace and war Katharine Lee Bates: Selections on war and&#160;peace ==== Katharine Lee BatesOnly Mules &#8216;The submarine was quite within its rights in sinking the cargo of theArmenian,—1,422 mules valued at $191,400.&#8217; No matter; we are [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>William Blake: Heaven and earth to peace beguiles</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2025 18:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war William Blake: Selections on war and peace ==== William BlakeCradle Song Sweet dreams form a shade,O&#8217;er my lovely infants head.Sweet dreams of pleasant streams,By happy silent moony beams Sweet sleep with soft down.Weave thy brows an infant crown.Sweet sleep Angel [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Katharine Lee Bates: The pity of it. Stars look down, like eyes of the slain.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Women writers on peace and war Katharine Lee Bates: Selections on war and&#160;peace ==== Katharine Lee BatesThe Pity of It I. In South Africa Over the lonesome African plainThe stars look down, like eyes of the slain. A bumping [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Friedrich Schiller: War makes gold out of iron</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 02:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts German writers on peace and war Friedrich Schiller: Selections on peace and war ==== Friedrich SchilerDemetriusTranslated by Charles E. Passage Across these lovely meadows peace still dwells,And here I come with the appalling gearOf war to lay them waste in hostile spirit! *** Sell or pawn [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Louis Couperus: Peace! The pure, immaculate ideal suddenly streamed like a silver banner.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 04:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Dutch writers on war and peace Louis Couperus: The peace speech Louis Couperus: “There’s war, injustice. And what do we do? Nothing.” ==== Louis CouperusThe Later LifeTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos Oh, she now for the first time understood what he had said, on that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Louis Couperus: The peace speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 07:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Dutch writers on war and peace Louis Couperus: Peace! The pure, immaculate ideal suddenly streamed like a silver banner. Louis Couperus: “There’s war, injustice. And what do we do? Nothing.” ==== Louis CouperusThe Later LifeTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos &#8220;Lectures?&#8221; cried Van der Welcke, in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thomas Babington Macaulay: Selections on war</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war ==== Thomas Babington Macaulay: Selections on war Thomas Babington Macaulay: Drive for transatlantic dominion leads to endless wars, empty treasuries Thomas Babington Macaulay: Evil that man should live only by destroying and by exposing himself to be destroyed Thomas Babington [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Friedrich Schiller: War will not spare the tender infant in his cradle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts German writers on peace and war Friedrich Schiller: Selections on peace and war ==== Friedrich SchillerWilliam Tell STAUFFACHER:They&#8217;re waiting only for a pretext toUnleash the savage hordes of militaryMight against this poor defenseless country.Just so they may rule as conquerors…. STAUFFACHER:O Wife, war is a frightful, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thomas Babington Macaulay: The real fruits of even triumphant war</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Thomas Babington Macaulay: Selections on war ==== Thomas Babington MacauleyFrederic the Great A succession of cruel wars had devastated Europe, had thinned the population, had exhausted the public resources, had loaded governments with an immense burden of debt; and when, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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