Weirdest and Pettiest Causes of Wars and Diplomatic Disputes

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Where Did We Find This Stuff? Some Sources and Further Reading

 

Ancient Pages – Hengist and Horsa: Legendary Anglo-Saxon Warrior Brothers, and Leaders of First Settlers in Britain

Association For Diplomatic Studies & Training – The 1969 ‘Soccer War’ Between Honduras and El Salvador

Ayoub, Mahmoud – The Crisis of Muslim History: Religion and Politics in Early Islam (2005)

Bowley, R. L. – Scilly at War (2001)

Cracked – 15 of the Weirdest, Pettiest Causes of Wars and Diplomatic Disputes

Geni – Wreck of the White Ship

Grunge – How One Camel Caused a Ruthless 40-Year War

Hastings, Max – Catastrophe, 1914: Europe Goes to War (2014)

Hemming, John – The Conquest of the Incas (1970)

Herzog, Chaim – The Arab-Israeli Wars: War and Peace in the Middle East From the 1948 War of Independence to the Present (2005)

Hildinger, Erik – Warriors of the Steppe: Military History of Central Asia, 500 BC to 1700 AD (1997)

History Collection – The Devastating Consequences of the Cold War

How Stuff Works – Japanese Holdouts

Kershaw, Ian – Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris (1998)

Madelung, Wilferd – The Succession to Muhammad: A Study of the Early Caliphate (1997)

Military History, May 2006 – Facing the Wrath of Khan

Morgan, David – The Mongols (1986)

Onoda, Hiroo – No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War (1974)

Oren, Michael – Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (2002)

Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 10^th, 2014 – Hiroo Onoda: Hero, or Villain?

Prescott, William H. – The History of the Conquest of Peru (1874)

Ratchnevsky, Paul – Genghis Khan: His Life and Legacy (1994)

Shirer, William – The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (1990 Edition)

Spencer, Charles – The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream (2020)

ThoughtCo – The Black Hand: Serbian Terrorists Spark WWI

World History Encyclopedia – Vortigern

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