# Paris

Author: Liddell Hart, Basil Henry, Sir, 1895-1970

Genre: Military art and science

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74631

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Paris+Liddell+Hart&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It is no purpose of this little book to discuss whether a repetition of war is likely or unlikely, or to speculate on the dawn of universal peace. The writer prefers to take his stand on universal experience, as contained in history, observing that the path of history is strewn with idealistic tombstones――the Holy Alliance, the mid-Victorian Manchester School, the Hague Conventions. The Great Exhibition of 1851 was to inaugurate a Golden Age, to be the concrete symbol of the millennium, yet within a decade the four chief Powers in Europe had reconverted their ploughshares into swords, and the North American continent was torn by a fratricidal conflict. To abolish war we must remove its ca...

## Chapters

- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/paris-74631/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/paris-74631/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/paris-74631/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/paris-74631/chapters/4/index.md)