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Goran Haag writes "Unlike Hitler and Churchill, Mussolini had a normal sexual appetite". What was strange about Churchill's sex life?

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I am currently reading Simms "Hitler" and it is giving me such a new picture of Hitler that I am starting to get skeptical. I see on Wikipedia that his previous work has been criticized by Richard Evans. Should I be skeptical? And how is a layperson to tell?

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Some speak of a "second 30 years war", or a "European Civil War", from 1914 to 1945. What are the merits of such, or other, alternative explanation models?

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Why did the Byzantoine empire and the muslim world start lagging around the High Middle Ages?

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Two 30-years wars? Two 100-years wars? What considerations come into play when deciding whether intermittent fighting over many years constitute one or more wars?

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Historians say that by 1300-1350, Europe's population had reached the limits of what its agriculture could sustain. Norway still has many forests; why couldn't people just burn down the forest and make more agricultural land?

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Change in gender roles during the Völkerwanderung

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How much did Albert Speer really have to do with the increase of munition production in wartime Germany?

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After Charles Martell, why didnt the arabs try again to penetrate the European mainland?

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Why are there castles in New Zealand?

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Goran Haag writes "Unlike Hitler and Churchill, Mussolini had a normal sexual appetite". What was strange about Churchill's sex life?	2509
I am currently reading Simms "Hitler" and it is giving me such a new picture of Hitler that I am starting to get skeptical. I see on Wikipedia that his previous work has been criticized by Richard Evans. Should I be skeptical? And how is a layperson to tell?	405
Some speak of a "second 30 years war", or a "European Civil War", from 1914 to 1945. What are the merits of such, or other, alternative explanation models?	87
Why did the Byzantoine empire and the muslim world start lagging around the High Middle Ages?	38
Two 30-years wars? Two 100-years wars? What considerations come into play when deciding whether intermittent fighting over many years constitute one or more wars?	30
Historians say that by 1300-1350, Europe's population had reached the limits of what its agriculture could sustain. Norway still has many forests; why couldn't people just burn down the forest and make more agricultural land?	26
Change in gender roles during the Völkerwanderung	18
How much did Albert Speer really have to do with the increase of munition production in wartime Germany?	11
After Charles Martell, why didnt the arabs try again to penetrate the European mainland?	9
Why are there castles in New Zealand?	8