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Frederick Palmer. My Year of the Great War
My Year of the Great War
Table of Contents
I. WHO STARTED IT?
II “LE BRAVE BELGE!”
III. MONS AND PARIS
IV. PARIS WAITS
V. ON THE HEELS OF VON KLUCK
VI. AND CALAIS WAITS
VII. IN GERMANY
VIII. HOW THE KAISER LEADS
IX. IN BELGIUM UNDER THE GERMANS
X. CHRISTMAS IN BELGIUM
XI. THE FUTURE OF BELGIUM
XII. WINTER IN LORRAINE
XIII. SMILES AMONG RUINS
XIV. A ROAD OF WAR I KNOW
XV. TRENCHES IN WINTER
XVI. IN NEUVE CHAPELLE
XVII. WITH THE IRISH
XVIII. WITH THE GUNS
XIX. ARCHIBALD THE ARCHER
XX. TRENCHES IN SUMMER
XXI. A SCHOOL IN BOMBING
XXII. MY BEST DAY AT THE FRONT
XXIII. MORE BEST DAY
XXIV. WINNING AND LOSING
XXV. THE MAPLE LEAF FOLK
XXVI. FINDING THE BRITISH FLEET
XXVII. ON A DESTROYER
XXVIII. SHIPS THAT HAVE FOUGHT
XXIX. ON THE “INFLEXIBLE”
XXX. ON THE FLEET FLAGSHIP
XXXI. SIMPLY HARD WORK
XXXII. HUNTING THE SUBMARINE
XXXIII. THE FLEET PUTS TO SEA
XXXIV. MANY PICTURES
XXXV. BRITISH PROBLEMS
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Frederick Palmer
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The Kaiser, too, insisted that he was for peace. So he was, according to German logic. He realised his military power as the outside world could not realise it. Had Italy joined her forces to her allies, he might have crushed France and then turned on Russia, as his staff had planned. For striking he could reduce France to a second-rate power, take her colonies, fatten German coffers with an enormous indemnity, and gain Belgium and the Channel ports as the next step in national ambition before crushing England and securing the mastery of the seas. But he held off the blow for many years; that is the logic of his partisanship for peace. The fact that France proved stronger than he thought hardly interfered with his belief in his own moderation, in view of his confidence in his arms before the test came. He was for peace because he did not knock the other man down as soon as he might.
No other race in all Europe liked the Germans; not even the Huns, or the Czechs, or the Croats, and least of all the Italians. The Belgians, too, shared the universal enmity. It was Germany that Belgium feared. Her forts looked toward Germany; she looked toward England and France for protection. In this she was unneutral; but not in the thing that counted—thorough military preparation.
