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In an age where we cannot help but try to predict the next great war, it's instructive to see what prophets of the past got wrong... and what they got right.
Written by Rear-Admiral Philip Colomb in 1892, the Great War of 189- captures the spirit of the age, channeling growing fears of a general European war and painting a picture of industrialized societies going to war.
A chilling vision of a future to come, written over twenty years before the events of 1914 plunged Europe into four years of bloody conflict, the Great War of 189- captures the heart of "invasion literature" and through newspaper articles and firsthand accounts of observers tells the tale of the next Great War. With pre-dreadnought fleet engagements in the Mediterranean and massed cavalry charges in Belgium, Colomb describes a World War that looks more like Waterloo than the Somme.
This annotated edition includes footnotes that provide invaluable insight into the events of this era and how Colomb's predictions shaped up. Coupled with newly illustrated maps of the battles and events of the Great War, this is the definitive version of this classic novel.
The original, unannotated text is available for free at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57707
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