{"id":47659,"date":"2025-08-01T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=47659"},"modified":"2025-08-19T15:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T15:10:25","slug":"richard-overy-why-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=47659","title":{"rendered":"Richard Overy, \u201eWhy War?\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Povjesni\u010dar Richard Overy, autor kod nas prevedene knjige \u201eDiktatori: Hitlerova Njema\u010dka i Staljinova Rusija\u201c, objavio je 2024. godine knjigu \u201eWhy War?\u201c, o kojoj je u <em>\u010casopisu za suvremenu povijest<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/hrcak.srce.hr\/334171\">pisao<\/a> Filip Katani\u0107. Na portalu <em>Novosti <\/em>o knjizi je <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portalnovosti.com\/povijest-i-buducnost-rata\/\">pisao<\/a> Jerko Bakotin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>There can be few more important but also more contentious issues than attempting to understand the human propensity for conflict. Our history is inextricably tangled in wave after wave of inter-human fighting from as far back as we have records.<br><br>How can we make sense of what Einstein called &#8216;the dark places of human will and feeling&#8217;? Richard Overy draws on a lifetime&#8217;s study of conflict to write this challenging, invaluable book. Studying every facet of war from biology to belief, psychology to security, Overy allows readers to understand the many contradictory or self-reinforcing ways in which warfare can suddenly appear a legitimate option.<br><br>Repeatedly humans have foresworn war, have understood its appalling risks and have wished to create more pacific, productive societies. And yet almost inevitably circumstances emerge under which war once more seems inevitable or even desirable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7&nbsp; Imprint: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/search-results?tab=books&amp;imprint=Pelican\">Pelican<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7&nbsp; Published: 27\/06\/2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7&nbsp; Length: 400 pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/448506\/why-war-by-overy-richard\/9780241567609\">https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/448506\/why-war-by-overy-richard\/9780241567609<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Overy.jpeg?fit=311%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53369,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=53369","url_meta":{"origin":47659,"position":0},"title":"Predstavljanje knjige Ljiljane Dobrov\u0161ak &#8220;Za\u010detnici industrije u Hrvatskoj \u017eidovskog podrijetla&#8221;","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"15. svibnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Pozivamo vas na predstavljanje knjige dr. sc. 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