The Balkan Peninsula

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A BALKAN PEASANT
FRANK FOX
AUTHOR OF AUSTRALIA, BULGARIA, SWITZERLAND, ETC.
PUBLISHED BY A. & C. BLACK, LTD. 4, 5, & 6 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W. 1915

This book was written in the spring of 1914, just before Germany plunged the world into the horrors of a war which she had long prepared, taking as a pretext a Balkan incident—the political murder of an Austrian prince by an Austrian subject of Serb nationality. Germany having prepared for war was anxious for an occasion which would range Austria by her side. If Germany had gone to war at the time of the Agadir incident, she knew that Italy would desert the Triple Alliance, and she feared for Austria's loyalty. A war pretext which made Austria's desertion impossible was just the thing for her plans.