Excerpt from Europe at War: Exciting Personal Experiences
The spectacle of all but one of the really great powers of Europe at war eclipses all the other war spectacles in the history of the World in the number of troops, the magnitude of armament and the theater of operations.
Millions of men met upon battlefields where tens of thousands had met before. Siege guns of a size unheard of before were used to reduce fortifications, and perfected machine guns mowed down battalions, while submarine and aeroplanes and monster Zeppelins played for the first time their deadly parts in the carnage of battles.
In order to understand and appreciate the importance of events of the great European war of 1914 it is desirable, and more or less necessary, to know the previous war history of Europe, the relations of the contending powers, their peoples and their history.
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