Well another Sunday and yet another boot sale! Amongst a pile of assorted paperbacks on a particular stall I found a copy of the book above. This is a hardback A5 popular edition (it must have been as this is the 16th impression dated 1914 and it was only published in 1912 originally!). I have never come across this title before but it appears to be an overview of the why and wherefores of Germany fighting the next war (the Great War that is). Chapters include:
i The Right to Make War
ii The Duty to Make War
iii Germany's Historical Development
iv Germany's Historical Mission
v World Power or Downfall
vi Social and Political Significance of Army for War
vii The Character of our Next War
viii The Next Naval War
ix The Crucial Question
x Army Organisation
xi Training and Education
xii Preparation for the Naval War
xiii The Army and Popular Education
xiv Financial and Political Preparation for War
Epilogue
I will report further when I have read this and it is worth pointing out that the first edition was published just after the Morocco dispute.
3 comments:
Great pickup DC!
I must confess that I was hugely pleaed to get something like this as a counterpoint to all the GB jingoistic stuff around - a view from the other side of the hill even!
It is also available from Google:
http://books.google.com/books?id=vhhoAAAAMAAJ&dq=Germany+And+The+Next+War+by+General+F.von+Bernhardi&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=bXidS5LVCIvuswOq89SdAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CA4Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=&f=false
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