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Jan 2020
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The World Crisis, by Winston Churchill, ...

SHARON HANDY
About this episode

Tonight let's fall asleep to this complex recounting of the road to World War I, as told by Sir Winston Churchill. If this book proves anything, it's that we're not good at learning from history, but we are very good indeed at being bored by it.

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