Chesterton sets out why Britain went to war in 1914 and then argues that Prussia’s offence was a war on the very idea of the promise: on treaties, reciprocity and the word given between nations. The volume adds his open letters to an old Italian veteran of Garibaldi’s campaigns, urging the common cause of free peoples against German militarism.
Combative wartime polemic from Chesterton at his most paradoxical, and a document of how the war was argued in 1915. Download the free EPUB.