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Frederick Scott Oliver. Ordeal by Battle
Ordeal by Battle
Table of Contents
PREFACE
PART I. THE CAUSES OF WAR
CHAPTER I. PEACE AND WAR
CHAPTER II. THE OUTBREAK OF WAR
CHAPTER III. WHO WANTED WAR?
CHAPTER IV. THE PENALTY OF NEGLIGENCE
CHAPTER V. PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
CHAPTER VI. GERMAN MISCALCULATIONS
CHAPTER VII. INTERNATIONAL ILL-WILL
PART II. THE SPIRIT OF GERMAN POLICY
CHAPTER I. THE BISMARCKIAN EPOCH
CHAPTER II. AFTER BISMARCK
CHAPTER III. THE GERMAN PROJECT OF EMPIRE
CHAPTER IV. THE NEW MORALISTS
CHAPTER V. THE STATECRAFT OF A PRIESTHOOD
CHAPTER VI. THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE
CHAPTER VII. THE CONFLICT OF SYSTEMS AND IDEAS
PART III. THE SPIRIT OF BRITISH POLICY
CHAPTER I. A REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD
CHAPTER II. THREE GOVERNING IDEAS
CHAPTER III. POLICY AND ARMAMENTS
CHAPTER IV. THE BALANCE OF POWER
CHAPTER V. THE MILITARY SITUATION
CHAPTER VI. THE MILITARY SITUATION
CHAPTER VII. A TRAGEDY OF ERRORS
PART IV. DEMOCRACY AND NATIONAL SERVICE
CHAPTER I. THE BRITISH ARMY AND THE PEACE OF EUROPE
CHAPTER II. THE COMPOSITION OF THE BRITISH ARMY
CHAPTER III. LORD ROBERTS'S WARNINGS
CHAPTER IV. LORD KITCHENER'S TASK
CHAPTER V. MATERIAL OF WAR
CHAPTER VI. METHODS OF RECRUITING
CHAPTER VII. PERVERSITIES OF THE ANTI-MILITARIST SPIRIT
CHAPTER VIII. SOME HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS
CHAPTER IX. THE CRUCIBLE OF WAR
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Frederick Scott Oliver
Published by Good Press, 2019
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[5] At St. Jean de Luz, when he was endeavouring, though not very successfully, to shake off the after-effects of his last Somaliland campaign. He was then engaged in correcting the proofs of the volume of his Staff College lectures which was subsequently published under the title Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville (Rees)—a most vivid and convincing narrative. In the intervals of work and golf he spent much of his time in visiting Wellington's adjacent battlefields and studying his passage of the Bidassoa and forcing of the Pyrenees.
[6] Gough's many friends will ever feel a double debt of gratitude to that distinguished surgeon, Sir Berkeley Moynihan, who by this operation restored him, after several years of ill-health and suffering, almost to complete health; and who once again—when by a strange coincidence of war he found his former patient lying in the hospital at Estaires the day after he was brought in wounded—came to his aid, and all but achieved the miracle of saving his life.
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