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Excerpt from Germany and Eastern Europe In the many English books and pamphlets which owe their origin to the present war and are concerned with exhibiting its causes and its meaning there is a general and very natural tendency to lay special stress upon those aspects of European history which are most familiar to Western observers and have the most direct bearing upon the fortunes of the Western Powers. Thus the war is sometimes depicted as the inevitable consequence of the seizure of Alsace-Lorraine by Germany, sometimes as the product of the German desire for a Colonial Empire, sometimes as a combination of both causes. Even when authors have dwelt upon the Balkan problem, with its widely ramifying consequences throughout the Slavonic world, they have seldom been inclined to assign to it any preponderant weight among the causes which produced the war. 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.