The Clash of Nations : Its Causes and Consequences

Contents: Preface. 1. The immediate causes of the war. 2. The original causes--boundaries and races. 3. Mobilization. 4. The new warfare. 5. Military implements of war. 6. Warships and naval implements of war. 7. Coast-defenses and fortifications. 8. Aircraft and wireless in war. 9. European wars since 1815: i. The Greek war for independence (1821). ii. The insurrection in France (1830). iii. The revolutionary movements of 1848. iv. The Crimean war (1854-55). v. The Franco-Austrian war (1959). vi. The liberation and unification of Italy (1859-60). vii. The Schleswig-Holstein war (1864). viii. The Prusso-Austrian war (1866). ix. The Franco-Prussian war (1870). x. The Russo-Turkish war (1877-78).  xi. The Greco-Turkish war (1897). xii. War in the Balkan states (1912-13). 10. Countries at war and involved: i. Austria-Hungary. ii. Belgium. iii. France. iv. Germany. v. The British Empire. vi. Russia. 11. State papers, official correspondence and chronological list of events.

"This book is intended to enable the reader to scan the daily bulletins with something of an intelligent understanding of the dispatches. No one, as yet, can tell him how it will all end; but we endeavour here to tell him why it began; to indicate, as nearly as possible, the various ends that are striven for; and to show him the resources and implements that came into play--many of them for the first time. There is no intention here of according praise or blame to any of the combatants, or expressing any opinion as to the merits of the conflict or the truth or falsehood of those that wage it. (jacket)