The World War and What was Behind It; Or The Story of the Map of Europe

Excerpt from The World War and What Was Behind It: Or the Story of the Map of Europe This little volume is the result of the interest shown by pupils teachers and the general public in a. Series of talks on the causes of the great European war which were given by the author in the fall of 1914. The audiences were widely different in character. They included pupils of the sixth seventh and eighth grades students in high school and normal school teachers in the public schools an association of business men and a convention of boards of education. In every case the same sentiment was voiced: If there were only some book which would give us these facts in simple language and illustrate them by maps and charts as you have done! After searching the market for a book of this sort without success the author deter mined to put the subject of his talks into manuscript form. It has been his aim to write in a style which is well within the comprehension of the children in the upper grades and yet is not too juvenile for adult readers. The book deals with the remarkable sequence of events in Europe which made the great war inevitable. Facts are revealed which so far as the author knows have not been published in any history to date; facts which had the strongest possible bearing on the outbreak of the war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at 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.