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Germany’s Great Lie, The Official German Justification of The War (1914).

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by D. Sladen (Author)

Publisher: Hutchinson & Co (1914)

As well as the snipes and barbs aimed at each other, both sides attempted to influence the views of neutrals before, and during, the fighting. America was especially targeted, with both German and Allied publications circulated in an attempt to mould perceptions.

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I grade the book as in ‘Very Good’ condition.

Reading pages are clean and unmarked.

This is an example of such material from the German side, analyzed by Douglas Sladen, a British writer. The original text is presented alongside comments about ‘the deliberate misstatements and ridiculous errors which crowd every page of the book’. This, therefore, is a rare instance of a single item illustrating conflicting perspectives. The initial text portrays a Germany that ‘wishes to lead a quiet and industrial life’ whose ‘love of peace is so strong that it is not regarded by us in the light of a virtue’. Sladen’s commentary, however, vigorously disagrees. He claims, for example, that ‘we have plenty of reasons for knowing that Germany not only wanted war, but meant to have it’.

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