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Two essential first hand accounts and histories of the French Army in 1914 Experienced British correspondent George Herbert Perris accompanied French troops during the opening campaigns of the First World War, and the two books he wrote concerning his observations and experiences have provided us with an essential view and history of the conflict. Accounts of the period, by those who were there, are usually written from the perspective of the ...

Excerpt from Russia in RevolutionI am indebted to my exile friends - especially the late Sergius Stepniak and the late Col. Lavrov, Mr. Volk hovsky, Mr. Tchaykovsky, and Dr. Soskice, to the files of Free Russia, La Tribune Russe, and the publi cations Of the Russian secret press, and to friends in Russia whom it would be inconvenient to name. A few passages, including a letter written in Moscow on the eve Of the recent crisis, have appeared in...

Excerpt from Industrial History of Modern England Tee purpose of this volume is to outline the facts and to interpret the spirit of the economic history of Great Britain in the last hundred and fifty years. The writer believed it to be a useful task to focus within such limits as these a narrative of the social transformation through which the mother country of industrialism has passed since the invention of the steam-engine, and, from this, ...

Excerpt from The Protectionist Peril: An Examination of Mr. Chamberlain's Proposals The following chapters are offered as a small contribution toward that "serious and scientific study" of Mr. Chamberlain's and similar proposals for which Mr. Balfour has appealed. I have tried to set forth in easily comprehensible form the actual facts of British trade, as they are reflected in the latest official statistics, and to show their bearing upon th...

Excerpt from Germany and the German Emperor German life of to-day by the aid of the Germanic past and they attempt to place the most important aspects of this life and this past in true perspective. Such an essay can only be partially successful. Yet the method may be right, however faulty the execution, and the attempt may be useful until better guides appear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and ...

Excerpt from The Battle of the Marne Having been privileged to watch the war in France from beginning to end, and to live with the French armies (as Correspondent attached to General Head quarters) for more than two years, the writer has also had exceptional opportunities of studying the terrain, and of discussing the drama as a whole and in detail with officers and men from the highest to the most humble. To name all those from whom he has r...

Excerpt from The War Traders: An Exposure The substance of the following paper was read at the National Peace Congress, Leeds, on June 11, 1913. On the previous evening, in the House of Commons, in answer to a request that he would print lists of the larger Government contractors, Mr. Asquith had declined to satisfy what he called "a roving curiosity." It is so many years since my "curiosity" began to "rove" in this field that I should hardly...

Excerpt from Leo Tolstoy the Grand Mujik: A Study in Personal EvolutionRussian nation. To exercise an in¿uence on the Russian reader, says one of the best Russian his torians of literature (s. Venguerov), the writer must be, in the first place, one of deep conviction. This feature of striving after goodness and truth, and making love the predominant key of life, Mr. Perris traces throughout the literary and social career of Leo Tolstoy, the gr...

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