The Two Maps of Europe, and Some Other Aspects of the Great War

Chapter 2: FOREWORD

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A collection of six essays contrasts two competing postwar visions for Europe: one seeking German predominance through territorial and political reordering, the other advocating the preservation and creation of independent national groupings to limit that power. The author examines how language, tradition, and historic memory define national identity, argues that wholesale annexation of European peoples is no longer a straightforward aim, and uses maps and practical illustrations to show how alternative arrangements of frontiers would reshape the continent and determine strategic and political outcomes.

FOREWORD

The six chapters of this little book discuss and explain six separate and most important phases of the present war. Every effort has been made to deal with the headings selected as comprehensively and as simply as possible, and it is hoped that, in this convenient form, the handbook will be welcomed by those who wish to follow the campaign with understanding. The various articles reprinted were written during the winter of the present year (1914-15), and many of the conclusions reached apply, therefore, to that period of the war only.

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