First edition. No jacket. Front hinge broken, rear hinge starting, ink name on front endpaper. 1923 Hard Cover. ix, 405 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; The Early Years--1888-1900; The Chancellorship of Bulow; The End of Bulow Regime; The Encirclement of Germany; Bethmann-Hollweg--1909-1917; Development and Working of the Entente; The Part of Great Britain in the Entente; Naval Expansion; Morocco; The Haldane Mission--1912; Three German Ambassadors; Pre-War Preparations--Part I: The Financial Aspect; Pre-War Preparations--Part II: Committee of Defence; Pre-War Preparations--Part III: The Dominions in Council; Pre-War Preparations--Part IV: The Dominions in Council (Continued); The Early Months of 1914: Retrospect and Prospect; Mr. Page--Colonel House; Serajevo and After--Part I: Before the Ultimatum; Serajevo and After--Part II: The Ultimatum; Serajevo and After--Part III: German Knowledge of the Ultimatum; A Calendar, July-August, 1914; Sir Edward Grey's Efforts for Peace--Part I: Mediatory Negotiations; Sir Edward Grey's Efforts for Peace--Part II: Obduracy of Austria; Sir Edward Grey's Efforts for Peace--Part IIII: Germany Precipitates the Conflict; The Eve of the War; At War; Alignment of States: The Dominions; The Kaiser--Part I: A Character Sketch; The Kaiser--Part II: His War Preparation Charges Analysed; The Kaiser--Part III: His Claims to Scholarship; Appendices: (A) Franco-Russian Convention, (B) Anglo-French Agreements, 1904, (C) Anglo-Russian Convention, 1907, (D) Grey-Cambon Formula, 1912, (E) The Hague Conference and the Limitation of Armaments, (F) War in the Balkans: Statement by Sir E. Grey in the House of Commons; Index.