Contents [Preface] [I. The Great War] [II. Rome and the Barbarian Tribes] [III. From Chiefs to Kings] [IV. Master and Man] [V. A Babel of Tongues] [VI. “The Terrible Turk”] [VII. The Rise of Modern Nations] [VIII. The Fall of Two Kingdoms] [IX. The Little Man from the Common People] [X. A King-Made Map and Its Trail of Wrongs] [XI. Italy a Nation at Last] [XII. The Man of Blood and Iron] [XIII. The Balance of Power] [XIV. The “Entente Cordiale”] [XV. The Sowing of the Dragon’s Teeth] [XVI. Who Profits?] [XVII. The Spark that Exploded the Magazine] [XVIII. Why England Came In] [XIX. Diplomacy and Kingly Ambition] [XX. Back to the Balkans] [XXI. The War under the Sea] [XXII. Another Crown Topples] [XXIII. The United States at War—Why?] [XXIV. Europe As It Should Be] [XXV. The Cost of It All] [XXVI. What Germany Must Learn] [Pronouncing Glossary] [Index]