Dreams of a Great Small Nation KCMO Ullman offers provocative and challenging

Ullman offers provocative and challenging arguments to conventional wisdom—that we fail to understand the challenges and dangers and lack a mindset to cope with these twenty-first-century realities

With his characteristic originality and insight

from patriotic badges worn by British citizens to field equipment

through the eyes of both historical and fictional protagonists

Eventually known as encephalitis lethargica

Dreams of a Great Small Nation KCMO Ullman offers provocative and challengingDescription by Kevin J. McNamara Hardcover In 1917, two empires that had dominated much of Europe and Asia teetered on the edge of the abyss, exhausted by the ruinous cost in blood and treasure of the First World War. As Imperial Russia and Habsburg ruled Austria Hungary began to succumb, a small group of Czech and Slovak combat veterans stranded in Siberia saw an opportunity to realize their long held dream of independence. While their plan was