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The mine that sparked a civil war but could bankroll the world’s next nation
This was at the beginning of a conflict that in the 1990s would develop into the deadliest in the Pacific region since World War II. The Bougainville crisis is estimated to have claimed up to ...
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Battle for a Continent
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, General Montcalm's aide-de-camp, was diminutive, overweight, asthmatic and possessed a good military mind. As he had already written two books on mathematics and was ...