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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Why We Are At War (2nd Edition, revised), by Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Why We Are At War (2nd Edition, revised) Author: Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History Release Date: January 23, 2004 [eBook #10809] Language: English Character set encoding: US-ASCII ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHY WE ARE AT WAR (2ND EDITION, REVISED)*** E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, David King, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team WHY WE ARE AT WAR GREAT BRITAIN'S CASE With an Appendix of Original Documents including the Authorized English Translation of the White Book issued by the German Government Second Edition Revised (fourth impression) containing the Russian Orange Book BY MEMBERS OF THE OXFORD FACULTY OF MODERN HISTORY 1914 PREFACE We are not politicians, and we belong to different schools of political thought. We have written this book to set forth the causes of the present war, and the principles which we believe to be at stake. We have some experience in the handling of historic evidence, and we have endeavoured to treat this subject historically. Our fifth chapter, which to many readers will be the most interesting, is founded upon first-hand evidence--the documents contained in the British White Book (Parliamentary Paper, Cd. 7467; hereafter cited as _Correspondence respecting the European Crisis_), and the German White Book, which is an official apology, supplemented by documents. The German White Book, as being difficult of access, we have printed _in extenso_. It exists in two versions, a German and an English, both published for the German Government. We have reproduced the English version without correcting the solecisms of spelling and expression. From the English White Book we have reprinted, in the second appendix, a small selection of the more significant documents; many more are quoted in the body of our work. Our thanks are due to Sir H. Erle Richards, Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy; and to Mr. W.G.S. Adams, Gladstone Professor of Political Theory and Institutions, for valuabl
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