Excerpt from The Truth About the War: Origin and Aspects of the European ConflictWE are at this present moment witnessing a con¿ict of nations of so Violent, so barbarous, and so inhuman a character that it is waste of time to speak of art, culture, European civilisation, and all the other ¿attering pictures with which mankind has hidden beneath the hypocritical mask of diplomacy its race hatreds, its destructive instincts, its ferocity, and its greed for power and gain.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.