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The Barbarism of Berlin

G. K. Chesterton

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Lastly, there is an attitude, not unknown in the crisis, against which I should particularly like to protest. I should address my protest especially to those lovers and pursuers of peace who, very shortsightedly, have occasionally adopted it. I mean the attitude which is impatient of these preliminary details about who did this or that, and whether it was right or wrong. They are satisfied with saying that an enormous calamity, called war, has been begun by some or all of us and should be ended by some or all of us. To these people, this preliminary chapter about the precise happenings must appear not only dry (and it must of necessity be the driest part of the task) but essentially needless and barren. I wish to tell these people that they are wrong; that they are wrong upon all principles of human justice and historic continuity; but that they are specially and supremely wrong upon their own principles of arbitration and international peace.

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G.K. Chesterton's
The Barbarism of Berlin
is a lengthy essay (442 kindle "locations" or about 33 pages) defending the decision by the U.K. to join World War I and fight the Central Powers, Germany in particular.

It is a testament to Chesterton's powerful skills as a writer that I found myself ag

I plan to read several books about World War I this year to commemorate the centennial of the outbreak of that dismal war fought with such great loss over so very little, and in the end with no lasting victory.

This book provides insight into the state of mind that fed the disaster. I like G.K. Chest

Chesterton describes the 'barbarism' of the Germans in their march up to WWI and the response of 'civilized' nations. By 'barbarism' he means something like intentional dishonesty and a view of one's self as being above the law. And of course if everyone thinks like that, then we are truly left with

Reflections about the different philosophies of nations during World War I. Written during it and strongly colored by that.

G.K. Chesterton attempts to condemn Germany's heresy, duplicity and racism, and does it in the most racist way possible. There are several books from this era that you mark up as simply being dated from a different time period with different socially acceptable thoughts and mores, but this was just

This essay from GK Chesterton was written in 1914 on the subject of the German nation and how they erred by drawing all of Europe into a World War. In general, polemic essays are lacking in that their perspective are negative and the author is drawn into an overcritical mode, and this essay falls in

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