Margaret MacMillan

Professor of history, University of Toronto; emeritus professor, Oxford University; author of “War: How Conflict Shaped Us”

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Historian MacMillan talks about the complexity of war and dispels the myth that fighting is in our DNA.

How war has shaped us

Historian MacMillan talks about the complexity of war and dispels the myth that fighting is in our DNA.

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