Why do we fight wars?

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🗓️ 30 January 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Margaret MacMillan gives a lecture on her book War: How Conflict Shaped Us, which explores the recurring reasons for conflict throughout history and examines how warfare has impacted on the human story. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:50.3	I'm Ellie Cawthorne.
0:56.7	Why do we fight wars?
0:59.1	Well, today we've got a lecture from Margaret McMillan that might begin to answer that question.
1:04.8	Margaret is the author of War, How Conflict Shaped Us.
1:08.6	And she originally gave this talk on her book as part of our virtual
1:12.1	lecture series. You can find out more about that at history extra.com forward slash events.
1:18.8	I want to start with a picture which some of you will be familiar with. It's by Albert Durer,
1:25.4	the great German artist, and it is the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
1:29.7	And among those horsemen who are, of course, supernatural creatures is war.
1:35.0	And you can see below the feet of the horses, those who suffer from the four horsemen, including war, the civilians, the innocent bystanders, the people who are trampled down by what
1:46.5	happens. I'm talking tonight about war and why do we fight. And it's not a subject that is a
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