Excerpt from The Government of the British Empire (as at the End of the Year 1917) 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.

Excerpt from The Round Table, Vol. 8: A Quarterly Review of the Politics of the British Empire; December 1917 to September 1918 Sphere lasting peace will not result from the mere mechanism of arbitration or of a League of Nations, but from a sub stitution of the friendly desire to work for humanity for the national rivalries of the past. 80 in industry, it will not be from the panaceas of the advocates of the class war or the introduction of the bureaucratic paraphernalia of the socialist state that industrial peace will come, but from a change whereby rich and poor, capitalist and labour, cease to regard inordinate wealth and having no work to do as the conditions of happiness, but agree that the first duty of industry is to provide adequately for the needs of all, and that throughout industry happiness and affluence will only come from perfect work and perfect service by all. Does anyone believe that any heaven could be made out of the jealous hatreds and bitter con troversies which dominated the industrial world before the war? Is it not obvious that the spirit which will transform our national life is the spirit which took men out of these conditions into the battle, and which has enabled them to find peace and contentment in greater measure than they had ever done before, though sacri ficing everything that the World had to offer, at duty's call? It is out of the war, and out of victory for our cause alone, that the real reconstruction of our society will spring. The dreamers of social reform who regard the war as an interference with their hopes are not unlike the pacifists. Their real panacea for social ills is a return to the catchwords and panaceas of pre-war days, because they cannot see that not only the Spirit but the very machinery of a new Social order is being created hour by hour in the struggle for the freedom of mankind. 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.

This Very Short Introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the Great War--from the state of Europe in 1914, to the role of the US, the collapse of Russia, and the eventual surrender of the Central Powers. Examining how and why the war was fought, as well as the historical controversies that still surround the war, Michael Howard also looks at how peace was ultimately made, and describes the potent legacy of resentment left to Germany.