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قراءة كتاب A General Sketch of the European War: The First Phase
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A General Sketch of the European War: The First Phase
A GENERAL SKETCH
OF THE
EUROPEAN WAR
BY
HILAIRE BELLOC
THE FIRST PHASE
THOMAS NELSON & COMPANY
LONDON, EDINBURGH, PARIS, AND NEW YORK
First published June 1, 1915
Reprinted June 1915
CONTENTS.
| Introduction | 7 | ||
| PART I. | |||
| THE GENERAL CAUSES OF THE WAR. | |||
| (1) | The German Object | 17 | |
| (2) | Conflict produced by the Contrast of this German Attitude or Will with the Wills of Other Nations | 23 | |
| (3) | Prussia | 27 | |
| (4) | Austria | 39 | |
| (5) | The Particular Causes of the War | 50 | |
| (6) | The Immediate Occasion of the War | 64 | |
| PART II. | |||
| THE FORCES OPPOSED. | |||
| (1) | The Geographical Position of the Belligerents | 80 | |
| The Geographical Advantages and Disadvantages of the Germanic Body | 86 | ||
| The Geographical Advantages and Disadvantages of the Allies | 121 | ||
| (2) | The Opposing Strengths | 136 | |
| The Figures of the First Period, say to October 1-31, 1914 | 145 | ||
| The Figures of the Second Period, say to April 15-June 1, 1915 | 151 | ||
| (3) | The Conflicting Theories of War | 164 | |
| PART III. | |||
| THE FIRST OPERATIONS. | |||
| (1) | The Battle of Metz | 316 | |
| (2) | Lemberg | 322 | |
| (3) | Tannenberg | 345 | |
| (4) | The Spirits in Conflict | 365 | |
INTRODUCTION.ToC
It is the object of this book, and those which will succeed it in the same series, to put before the reader the main lines of the European War as it proceeds. Each such part must necessarily be completed and issued some little time after the events to which it relates have passed into history. The present first, or introductory volume, which is a preface to the whole, covers no more than the outbreak of hostilities, and is chiefly concerned with an examination of the historical causes which produced the conflict, an estimate of the comparative strength of the various combatants, and a description of the first few days during which these combatants took up their positions and suffered the first great shocks of the campaigns in East and West.
But in order to serve as an introduction to the remainder of the series, it is necessary that the plan upon which these books are to be constructed should be clearly explained.
There is no intention of giving in detail and with numerous exact maps the progress of the campaigns. Still less does the writer propose to examine disputed points of detail, or to enumerate the units employed over