Excerpt from The People's War Book: History, Cyclopaedia and Chronology of the Great World War In the days of our Grandfathers each country of the world was remote, no country was dependent upon any other, or the rest of the world, as we are today. The world is closely knitted together in this day and age. No Nation can be a recluse and live alone, so to speak. In the days gone by we have heard men say something like this: Let other countries have their quarrels and their wars. 'we can go on about our business regardless of them. Their troubles need not bother us a bit. The great world war, it is safe to say, has eradicated this provincial notion from the American people as well as from the people of all other nations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

ジェームズ・マーティン・ミラーの本作は、人類が「孤立」という幻想を喪失した瞬間を捉えた、壮大な文明論的ドキュメントです。かつての平穏な地方主義が終わり、大戦がもたらした相互依存の冷徹な現実を突きつけるその筆致は、百余年を経た今なお、グローバル社会を生きる私たちの心に強烈な警鐘を鳴らし続けます。 百科事典的な緻密さの背後には、新たな世界秩序が産声を上げる瞬間の熱量が宿っています。世界を一筋の緊密な織物として捉え直すミラーの視座は、極めて文学的な深みを湛えています。これは過去の記録ではなく、私たちがなぜ他者の痛みと無縁でいられないのかを解き明かす、現代の読者必携の血の通った「知の遺産」なのです。