Writing in the first months of the Great War, Chesterton tells the story of how the conflict began and then argues that Prussia stands outside the Christian civilisation of Europe. In chapters on the war on the word, the refusal of reciprocity and the appetite of tyranny, he accuses the Prussian state of breaking promises, despising equality and worshipping force.
Wartime polemic rather than history, but a vivid example of Chesterton’s paradox-laden prose at full pitch. Download the free EPUB.