Excerpt from Britain After the Peace: Revolution or Reconstruction To me it seems clear that very little progress can be made in preparing for after-the-war problems, unless we realize that when the Kaiser declared war on France and Russia he began not merely a war, but a revolution. On that day society, as we have known it, committed suicide. Even if the blind Samson of German militarism had succeeded in pulling down the temple on the heads of its enemies, it must, nevertheless, have perished in the ruins itself. A sudden and sweeping victory, like that of 1870. 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.