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Copyright, 1933, BY DAVID LLOYD GEORGE All rights reserved Published October, 1933 PRINTED IN THEUNITED STATES OF AMERICA
PREFACE MOST of the leading actors in the Great War, both Statesmen and Warriors, have committed to writing the story of the part they played in it. With one or two exceptions they have written their stories themselves, although the composition of books has been as new a venture to them as it is now to me. With the exception of M. Briand, who never put pen to paper, all the dominant personalities of the War have told their tale of what they did and why they did it; amongst rulers, the Kaiser, the Crown Prince, M. Poincare, President Wilson (through Mr. Baker); amongst statesmen, M. Clemenceau, Mr. Asquith, Lord Grey, Mr. Churchill, Colonel House, Prince Max of Baden, Von Buelow; amongst the warriors, Foch, Hindenburg, Ludendorff, Hofmann, French, Haig (with the aid of another pen), Henry Wilson, Pershing, and a host of others. My library shelves groan under the burden of war autobiographies. No wonder I hesitated for years to follow the example set me by those who figured so prominently on the stage where I also occupied a not inconspicuous position. I had almost decided to bequeath the undertaking to those with whom I should leave my papers, when two incidents occurred which influenced me to take up my pencil and relate my own story in my own words. The first was an illness which released me from the irksome and peculiarly thankless duty of leadership in a political party unhappily poisoned and paralysed by internal dissension amongst its better-known members. The other
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THE BREWING OF THE STORM 47 the fol
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CHAPTER II THE CRASH 1. UNEXPECTED
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THE CRASH 51 July, we met in the Pr
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THE CRASH S3 incitement, usually as
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THE CRASH 59 army leaders assured h
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THE CRASH 65 4. 4TH OF AUGUST, 1914
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THE CRASH 67 tions of military enth
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THE CRASH 69 ond form of attack on
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TELEPHOHE MESSAGES RECEIVED BY CHIE
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CHAPTER IV THE FINANCIAL CRISIS 1.
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CHAPTER V THE FIGHT FOR MUNITIONS 1
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CHAPTER VII THE POLITICS OF THE WAR
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CHAPTER VIII THE POLITICAL CRISIS I
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CHAPTER IX THE MINISTRY OF MUNITION
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CHAPTER XII ALLIED PROCRASTINATION
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THE RUSSIAN COLLAPSE 395 ing machin
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INDEX ACLAND, MR. (later Sir) FRANC
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ignorance of attack on Serbia, 444-
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problems confronting, 210, 214, 215
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lack of equipment, 381, 385, 387, 3
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INDEX 469 futility of western campa
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