Books on its creation and its unification preferably

Are they some Italian or Austrian who got slavicized?

Robert Gaudi wrote in African Kaiser that the interception, capture, and destruction of SS City of Winchester by SMS Königsberg in 1914 caused a tea shortage in the British Isles until late in the war. How true is this claim? Did tea supply at that time could be heavily reduced by the capture of a single merchant ship?

Here is a direct quote:

The capture of The City of Winchester... caused... First, the "bottom dropped out of the London tea market when news of her capture reached England", Leading to shortages of the nation's favorite beverage until late in the war".

Before the deployment of the first ever atomic bomb, the US dropped leaflets over several major cities and towns urging the citizens to leave the city and pressure the government to submit to the surrender demands, lest they be forced to deploy a new and devastating weapon.

After the deployment of "little boy" on hiroshima with devastating effect they dropped even more flyers directing the citizens to ask about what happened at Hiroshima and the news that the Russians had declared war on them too.

How (much) did the flyers affect the loss of life by making citizens evacuate and did it affect the surrendering process in any significant capacity?

I remember reading somewhere that Hannibal escaped to areas where Phoenician was widely spoken so that he could get around more easily. I have since not been able to find where I read it, regrettably. But is this true? Was Hannibal actually Phoenician by blood?

I am planning on reading the Cambridge Histories series, starting with the Cambridge Ancient History working all the way up to the New Cambridge Modern History series. Is this a good strategy, and what are the pitfalls of this approach?

Crammed a lot into the title there.

Basically I've Googled around and I can find a lot of images and descriptions but nothing about how these square formations actually operated. The battle set up is pretty basic all around. Infantry in the middle, cavalry on the wings. And then cannons.

I can't find anything that really describes the movements of these forces on the battlefield. Help please? Thank you!

I was reading somewhere about post-WW2 US foreign policy where the military was supposed to be used not to dominate, but to protect borders enabling peace and trade. The argument was made that a lot of our much-maligned global geopolitics arises from this, but it is really fundamentally about the humanitarian effort to promote global stability - or, at least there is some element of that.

It was "some_guy's_name doctrine."

The triumvirates, the social wars, the third century crisis, etc. had tons of Romans killing one another. While many wars against foreigners often had relatively few Roman casualties. Is it probable that more Romans died fighting amongst themselves than against foreign powers? Is it even possible to know?

I was interested in knowing, but there seems to be no straight answer online.

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I was wondering this after the Nazis were placed on trail it was decided that "because a higher up told me to" was no longer a valid excuse for doing shitty things during war. If Germans were drafted this means they were ""forced"" to awful things during WWII... Im not trying to sound like an anti-semitic douche but I've been wondering this for awhile...

Has it always been a frequent subject of discussion by philosophers/artists ever since Plato's time? Was it always given as much importance as it is now?

If not, who 'rediscovered' it and brought it back into public attention; when, and why?

Did Fascism come to power due to their own strengths? Or due to the weaknesses of their opposition?

Endless fuss about the brave volunteers for the Republicans, but I've never heard of any Americans fighting for the other side. Were there any?