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Ordeal by Battle

by Frederick Scott Oliver

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  1. 1Ordeal by Battle
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Part I — The Causes of War
  4. 4Chapter I — Peace and War
  5. 5Chapter II — The Outbreak of War
  6. 6Chapter III — Who Wanted War?
  7. 7Chapter IV — The Penalty of Negligence
  8. 8Chapter V — Personal Responsibility
  9. 9Chapter VI — German Miscalculations
  10. 10Chapter VII — International Ill-Will
  11. 11Part II — The Spirit of German Policy
  12. 12Chapter I — The Bismarckian Epoch
  13. 13Chapter II — After Bismarck
  14. 14Chapter III — The German Project of Empire
  15. 15Chapter IV — The New Moralists
  16. 16Chapter V — The Statecraft of a Priesthood
  17. 17Chapter VI — The Devil’s Advocate
  18. 18Chapter VII — The Conflict of Systems and Ideas
  19. 19Part III — The Spirit of British Policy
  20. 20Chapter I — A Revolutionary Period
  21. 21Chapter II — Three Governing Ideas
  22. 22Chapter III — Policy and Armaments
  23. 23Chapter IV — The Balance of Power
  24. 24Chapter V — The Military Situation
  25. 25Chapter VI — The Military Situation
  26. 26Chapter VII — A Tragedy of Errors
  27. 27Part IV — Democracy and National Service
  28. 28Chapter I — The British Army and the Peace of Europe
  29. 29Chapter II — The Composition of the British Army
  30. 30Chapter III — Lord Roberts’s Warnings
  31. 31Chapter IV — Lord Kitchener’s Task
  32. 32Chapter V — Material of War
  33. 33Chapter VI — Methods of Recruiting
  34. 34Chapter VII — Perversities of the Anti-Militarist Spirit
  35. 35Chapter VIII — Some Historical Reflections
  36. 36Chapter IX — The Crucible of War

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