Title: Why nations go to war /
Authors: Stoessinger, John George.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press,
Year: 1990
Subjects: History, Modern; War
Contents: pt. 1. The iron dice: World War I: The Kaiser's fateful pledge -- The Austrian ultimatum to Serbia -- The closing trap -- The iron dice -- pt. 2. Barbarossa: Hitler's attack on Russia: Hitler and Russia -- Stalin and Germany -- pt. 3. The temptations of victory: Korea: President Truman's decision General MacArthur's gamble -- pt. 4. A Greek tragedy in five acts: Vietnam: Truman: Asia was not Europe -- Eisenhower: the lesson of France ignored -- Kennedy: the military -- Johnson: the catastrophe -- Nixon: full circle -- pt. 5. Three battles over God: India and Pakistan in 1947, 1965, and 1971: Colonialism, partition, and war -- The Kashmir War of 1965 -- The bloody dawn of Bangladesh -- pt. 6. The forty years' war in the Holy Land: Israel and the Arabs: The Palestine War of 1948 -- The Sinai campaign and the Suez crisis of 1956 -- The Six-Day War of 1967 -- The October War of 1973 -- The Lebanese tragedy -- The Palestinian uprising -- pt. 7. The price of martyrdom: the Persian Gulf: The Shah, Ayatollah Khomeini, and America -- The Iran-Iraq War: the price of martyrdom -- Terrorism and the twilight of diplomacy -- pt. 8. Why nations go to war.