A General Sketch of the European War: The First Phase

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Hilaire Belloc. A General Sketch of the European War: The First Phase

A General Sketch of the European War: The First Phase

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION.ToC

PLAN OF THIS BOOK

A GENERAL SKETCH OF THE EUROPEAN WAR

PART I

THE GENERAL CAUSES OF THE WAR.ToC

(I) The German Object

(2) Conflict produced by the Contrast of this German Attitude. or Will with the Wills of Other Nations

(3) Prussia

(4) Austria

(5) The Particular Causes of the War

(6) The Immediate Occasion of the War

PART II

THE FORCES OPPOSED.ToC

(1) The Geographical Position of the Belligerents

(2) The Opposing Strengths

(3) The Conflicting Theories of War

FOOTNOTES:

PART III

THE FIRST OPERATIONS

The Battle of Metz

Lemberg

Tannenberg

The Spirits in Conflict

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Hilaire Belloc

Published by Good Press, 2019

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From that day to this the advance of Prussia as, first, the champion, then the leader, and at last the master of Northern Germany as a whole (including many Catholic parts in the centre and the south), has been consistent and almost uninterrupted. The "Great Elector" (as he was called) formed an admirable army some two hundred years ago. His grandson Frederick formed a still better one, and by his great capacities as a general, as well as by the excellence of his troops, gave Prussia a military reputation in the middle of the eighteenth century which has occasionally been eclipsed, but has never been extinguished.

Frederick the Great did more than this. He codified and gave expression, as it were, to the Prussian spirit, and the manifestation of that spirit in international affairs is generally called the "Frederician Tradition."

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