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A civil war is a war between organized groups within the same nation state or republic, or, less commonly, between two countries created from a formerly-united nation state.

In America, "Civil War" is often used to refer to the American Civil War. In Britain, it usually refers to the English Civil War from 1642鈥�1651. Other civil wars in modern times include the Irish Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, and the Syrian Civil War.
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President鈦犫€攁nd Why It Failed

How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined

Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876

The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future

Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation

Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

The Cotillion Brigade: A Novel of the Civil War and the Most Famous Female Militia in American History

Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart 鈥� Again

Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga, #1)

The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America

The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War

The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul

On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice

Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America

Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution

American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873

Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War

Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents

Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality

President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier

The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells

Hanged! Mary Surratt and the Plot to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln

A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War

When the Mountains Wept (West Virginia: Born of Rebellion's Storm #1)

The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning

The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman

The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade

Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War

Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion

In the Valley: Stories and a Novella Based on SERENA

In the Waves: My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine

Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine

Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland

Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire

I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction (Bloomsbury)

Seceding from Secession: The Civil War, Politics, and the Creation of West Virginia

The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail

Guts for Glory: The Story of Civil War Soldier Rosetta Wakeman

The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union

The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

Passing Through the Fire: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in the Civil War (Emerging Civil War Series)

The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story

Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War

The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America

Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

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“ 1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy in East Bengal and their armed attack on India from West Pakistan.... This led to a moral and political catastrophe the effects of which are still sorely felt. Kissinger鈥檚 undisclosed reason for the 鈥榯ilt鈥� was the supposed but never materialised 鈥榖rokerage鈥� offered by the dictator Yahya Khan in the course of secret diplomacy between Nixon and China.... Of 1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy in East Bengal and their armed attack on India from West Pakistan.... This led to a moral and political catastrophe the effects of which are still sorely felt. Kissinger鈥檚 undisclosed reason for the 鈥榯ilt鈥� was the supposed but never materialised 鈥榖rokerage鈥� offered by the dictator Yahya Khan in the course of secret diplomacy between Nixon and China.... Of the new state of Bangladesh, Kissinger remarked coldly that it was 鈥榓 basket case鈥� before turning his unsolicited expertise elsewhere. 2. Chile.... Kissinger had direct personal knowledge of the CIA鈥檚 plan to kidnap and murder General Ren茅 Schneider, the head of the Chilean Armed Forces ... who refused to countenance military intervention in politics. In his hatred for the Allende Government, Kissinger even outdid Richard Helms ... who warned him that a coup in such a stable democracy would be hard to procure. The murder of Schneider nonetheless went ahead, at Kissinger鈥檚 urging and with American financing, just between Allende鈥檚 election and his confirmation.... This was one of the relatively few times that Mr Kissinger (his success in getting people to call him 鈥楧octor鈥� is greater than that of most PhDs) involved himself in the assassination of a single named individual rather than the slaughter of anonymous thousands. His jocular remark on this occasion鈥斺€業 don鈥檛 see why we have to let a country go Marxist just because its people are irresponsible鈥欌€攕uggests he may have been having the best of times.... 3. Cyprus.... Kissinger approved of the preparations by Greek Cypriot fascists for the murder of President Makarios, and sanctioned the coup which tried to extend the rule of the Athens junta (a favoured client of his) to the island. When despite great waste of life this coup failed in its objective, which was also Kissinger鈥檚, of enforced partition, Kissinger promiscuously switched sides to support an even bloodier intervention by Turkey. Thomas Boyatt ... went to Kissinger in advance of the anti-Makarios putsch and warned him that it could lead to a civil war. 鈥楽pare me the civics lecture,鈥� replied Kissinger, who as you can readily see had an aphorism for all occasions. 4. Kurdistan. Having endorsed the covert policy of supporting a Kurdish revolt in northern Iraq between 1974 and 1975, with 鈥榙eniable鈥� assistance also provided by Israel and the Shah of Iran, Kissinger made it plain to his subordinates that the Kurds were not to be allowed to win, but were to be employed for their nuisance value alone. They were not to be told that this was the case, but soon found out when the Shah and Saddam Hussein composed their differences, and American aid to Kurdistan was cut off. Hardened CIA hands went to Kissinger ... for an aid programme for the many thousands of Kurdish refugees who were thus abruptly created.... The apercu of the day was: 鈥榝oreign policy should not he confused with missionary work.鈥� Saddam Hussein heartily concurred. 5. East Timor. The day after Kissinger left Djakarta in 1975, the Armed Forces of Indonesia employed American weapons to invade and subjugate the independent former Portuguese colony of East Timor. Isaacson gives a figure of 100,000 deaths resulting from the occupation, or one-seventh of the population, and there are good judges who put this estimate on the low side. Kissinger was furious when news of his own collusion was leaked, because as well as breaking international law the Indonesians were also violating an agreement with the United States.... Monroe Leigh ... pointed out this awkward latter fact. Kissinger snapped: 鈥楾he Israelis when they go into Lebanon鈥攚hen was the last time we protested that?鈥� A good question, even if it did not and does not lie especially well in his mouth. It goes on and on and on until one cannot eat enough to vomit enough. ...more ”
― Christopher Hitchens

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“ It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws. ”
― Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

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