Published, November, 1914
Second Edition, March, 1915
Third Edition, August, 1915
Fourth Edition, December, 1915
To
MY CHILDREN
CHRISTINE ESTE of Adana,
LLOYD IRVING of Constantinople,
and
EMILY ELIZABETH of Paris.
Born in the midst of the wars and changes that this book describes,
may they lead lives of peace!
There are general causes, moral or physical, which act in each State, elevate it, maintain it, or cast it down; every accident is submitted to these causes, and if the fortune of a battle, that is to say a particular cause, has ruined a State, there was a general cause which brought it about that that State had to perish by a single battle.
MONTESQUIEU.
CONTENTS
I. [Germany in Alsace and Lorraine]
II. [The "Weltpolitik" of Germany]
III. [The "Bagdadbahn"]
IV. [Algeciras and Agadir]
V. [The Passing of Persia]
VI. [The Partitioners and their Poles]
VII. [Italia Irredenta]
VIII. [The Danube and the Dardanelles]
XIX. [Austria-Hungary and her South Slavs]
X. [Racial Rivalries in Macedonia]
XI. [The Young Turk Régime in the Ottoman Empire]
XII. [Crete and European Diplomacy]
XIII. [The War between Italy and Turkey]
XIV. [The War between the Balkan States and Turkey]
XV. [The Rupture between the Allies]
XVI. [The War between the Balkan Allies]
XVII. [The Treaty of Bukarest]
XVIII. [The Albanian Fiasco]
XIX. [The Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum to Servia]
XX. [Germany Forces War upon Russia and France]
XXI. [Great Britain Enters the War]
[Index]
MAPS
I. [The Balkan Peninsula according to the Treaties of San Stefano, Berlin, Lausanne, and Bukarest]
III. [Europe in 1911]