world war

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Eliot theorized in his 1925 poem “The Hollow Men,” a bleak assessment of life after the first world war.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

There’s nothing coincidental in the fact that military schools also rose up around then, and that they kept multiplying past the first world war and up to the second one.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

Yet somehow, a world war posed less of a threat to Hearts than the disastrous tenure of a Russian-Lithuanian owner who nearly spent the club into oblivion in the 2010s.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

One world war later, Harry Truman confronted the Soviet Union and helped architect the modern international order but watched his approval ratings sink as inflation soured voters on the economy.

From Slate • Mar. 10, 2026

World War II really was a world war: it took place across oceans as well as continents.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein