In C.S. Lewis’ brilliant, under-appreciated sci-fi novel, That Hideous Strength, the evil Professor Frost informs the hapless anti-hero Mark Studdock about the course of the twentieth century’s wars. Of the Second World War Frost observes it was only the second of ‘sixteen major wars which are scheduled to take place in this century.’ I reproduce a full…
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