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Fleeced Unraveling the History of Wool and War

Trish FitzSimons

Not everything about wool is warm and fuzzy. Wool, for millennia the cold climate textile fiber, has a long relationship to war, both in terms of supporting it and causing it. Wool's strategic value in wartime, a position it gained over centuries, and contrived shortages of same in the 20th century...

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The host noted that Trish Fitzsimmons was a coauthor of the book Fleeced, which explores the history of wool and war.

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That's Trish Fitzsimmons, coauthor of the book Fleeced, unraveling the history of wool and war.

— Episode: The Longest Fence in the World

Episode: The Longest Fence in the World

The host noted that Trish Fitzsimmons was a coauthor of the book Fleeced, which explores the history of wool and war.

"

That's Trish Fitzsimmons, coauthor of the book Fleeced, unraveling the history of wool and war.

coauthor of the book Fleeced, and Ronald Breckwald, author of the book Dingo, the true story of Australia's most maligned native animal.

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