When war erupted in the Balkans in 1912, critics claimed it proved the pacifists wrong. Angell, whose The Great Illusion had argued that conquest no longer pays, replies point by point, examining the economics of the Balkan War, the meaning of defence, and the misunderstood claim that war had become impossible.
A lucid argument from the future Nobel Peace laureate, written on the eve of the Great War. Download the free EPUB.