Addressed directly to the man of the working class, this socialist tract asks what war is, who pays for it in blood and money and who gains. Kirkpatrick piles up quotations from generals, presidents and newspapers, describes the realities of the battlefield in a chapter titled simply ‘Hell’, and argues that workers are tricked into the trenches and then snubbed.
An antiwar polemic of the pre-1914 American left, angry and plain-spoken. Download the free EPUB.