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A fascinating look at historys losersthe myths they create to cope with defeat and the steps they take never to be vanquished again history may be written by the victors, wolfgang schivelbusch argues in his brilliant and provocative new book, but the losers often have the final word. May 8 by cobbs collapse, was following two weeks in new supposed to resume here in july york, mcleish leaves for great in. Story originally was slated to commercial stations, mcleish rebe filmed entirely in houston. From the rarelydiscussed nightmare of broken arrows 40 nuclear weapons lost during the cold war to operation plowshare a proposal to use nuclear bombs for large engineering projects, such as a the construction of a second.
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