A History of the Nations and Empires Involved and a Study of the Events Culminating in the Great Conflict
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PREFACE
Chapter II. UNDERLYING CAUSES OF THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR Assassination of the Austrian Crown Prince - Austria's motive in Making War - Servia Accepts Austria's Demand - The Ironies of History - What Austria had to Gain - How the War Became Continental - An Editorial Opinion - Is the Kaiser Responsible? -Germany's Stake in the War - Why Russia Entered the Field - France's Hatred of Germany - Great Britain and Italy - The Triple Alliance and Triple Entente
Chapter III. STRENGTH AND RESOURCES OF THE WARRING POWERS Old and New Methods in War - Costs of Modern Warfare - Nature of National Resources - British and American Military Systems - Naval Strength - Resources of Austria-Hungary - Resources of Germany - Resources of Russia - Resources of France - Resources of Great Britain - Servia and Belgium
Chapter IV. GREAT BRITAIN AND THE WAR The Growth of German Importance - German Militarism - Great Britain's Peace Efforts - Germany's Naval Program - German Ambitions - Preparation for War - Effect on the Empire
Chapter V. THE WORLD'S GREATEST WAR Wars as Mileposts - A Continent in Arms - How Canada Prepared for War - The British Sentiment - Lord Kitchener's Career - A Forceful Character
Chapter VI. THE EARTHQUAKE OF NAPOLEONISM
Chapter VII. PAN-SLAVISM VERSUS PAN-GERMANISM
Chapter VIII. The Ambition of Louis Napoleon
Chapter IX. GARIBALDI AND ITALIAN UNITY
Chapter X. THE EXPANSION OF GERMANY
Chapter XI. THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR
Chapter XII. BISMARCK AND THE NEW GERMAN EMPIRE
Chapter XIII. GLADSTONE AS AN APOSTLE OF REFORM
Chapter XIV. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC
Chapter XV. RUSSIA IN THE FIELD OF WAR
Chapter XVI. GREAT BRITAIN AND HER COLONIES
Chapter XVII. THE OPEN DOOR IN CHINA AND JAPAN
Chapter XVIII. TURKEY AND THE BALKAN STATES
Chapter XIX. METHODS IN MODERN WARFARE
Chapter XX. CANADA'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR
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