The saddest of the books on my office bookshelf is an old one published nearly a century ago: Norman Angell's The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power in Nations to Their Economic and Social Advantage , which tried to prove that military conquest was obsolete.
Le livre le plus triste de ma bibliothèque de bureau est un vieux livre publié il y a presque un siècle : The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power in Nations to Their Economic and Social Advantage , (La Grande illusion : étude sur la relation entre la puissance militaire des nations et leur avancement social et économique), de Norman Angell, qui essayait de prouver que la conquête militaire était un concept dépassé.