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From inside cover. "Perpetual peace is a dream, and it is not even a beautiful dream." "The two great Empires (Britain and Germany) begin to realize they can co-operate for common ends, and that the points of co-operation are greater and more numerous and more important than the points of possible controversy." Two statements, the first by the German chief of staff Moltke and the second by Lloyd George, made only months before the outbreak of hostilities, show widely differing assessments of the situation in Europe which led to the war of 1914-18. Furthermore, the apparent easing of international trade and diplomacy and the close kinship between the monarchs of Britain, Germany and Russia created an effect of unanimity and goodwill that blinded most people, in Britain at least, to the militant imperialism and frustrated ambitions which were to tear the continent apart. The prosecution and aims of the war were equally unreal; experienced general and young idealist had to face the cold reality of stultifying trench warfare and suicidal frontal assaults. In this book L F Hobley brings out the paradoxes that created the First World War and also the ones it led to- the greatest being the harsh terms of the Armistice with the lofty intentions of the League of Nations, in which its authors saw a fitting culmination of "the War to end wars."
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- PublisherBlackie & Son
- Publication date1971
- ISBN 10 0216872103
- ISBN 13 9780216872103
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages138
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