Author: Oliver Perry Chitwood

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-09-18

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9781528386012

Excerpt from The Immediate Causes of the Great War The object of this volume is to narrate briefly the direct causes of the Europe-an war as they are given in the published documents of the bel ligerents.) These sources are abundantly ade quate for determining the immediate respon 'sibility of each nation and apportioning the guilt for this great crime. It may be thought that, inasmuch as each government in publish ing its official correspondence has tried to con vict its enemies and clear itself and its allies, the statements made are so biased as not to be accepted as evidence. This, however, is not the case. The. Documents corroborate each other sufficiently to Show that statements of fact given in official despatches by ambassadors to foreign ministers and vice versa can usually be accepted at face value. The numerous cross-references in the published correspondence enable us some times to detect false claims based on the omis sion, misinterpretation, or even the distortion of facts. Some discrepancies, however, are ir reducible, and Where such occur, the evidence presented by both sides is given. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.