Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The War, 1914: A History and an Explanation for Boys and Girls
IN the beginning of the year 1914, British and American children, and children in nearly all the countries of Europe, had hardly ever thought about war. Those who were old enough to go to school had learned something about old wars and great victories which their nations had won in quite far-off times, but they did not always think them very interesting. Then, in the August of 1914, every child in Europe and America knew that a great war was actually beginning. In that war they knew that two great European nations, Germany and Austria, were fighting against nearly all the other nations of Europe. They did not, perhaps, know that the war which began in 1914 was the greatest war which had ever been since the world began. It was nearly fifty years since any great war between even two great nations had been fought. Many people said that there would never again be a war in which nearly all the nations of Europe would take part. These people thought that men and women had grown more peaceful and that nations could never hate each other as they had done in the past. But everyone knew that if a great European war did come it would be a very wonderful and terrible war indeed.
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