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Why War? -- Richard Overy, Hardcover Blank Books / Diaries / Memory Books A NEW YORK TIMES MOSTRichard Overy is not the first scholar to take up the title question. In 1931, at the request of the League of Nations, Albert Einstein asked Sigmund Freud to collaborate on a short work examining whether there was "a way of delivering mankind from the menace of war." Published the next year as a pamphlet entitled Why War?, it conveyed Freud's conclusion that the "death drive" made any deliverance impossible the psychological impulse to destruction