This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XLIV Wickedest War of All the Ages Some Outstanding Impressions and Thoughts Upon its Origin, its Wreckage, Wastage and Awfulness--Kaiser Wilhelm When He Found He Had Lost, Said War Was Not of His Making But War Board Was Wholly to Blaise. HILE Germany believed she was winning the war, General Hindenburg, Admiral Von Tirpitz, the War Board and the Kaiser disputed with each other, the credit and the glory of it all. When Germany met with reverses and collapse was inevitable, sponsorship for defeat became an anonymous thing. War, ingloriously lost, the Kaiser blamed his war board, declaring he had been grossly deceived by it, while the war board, with the Kaiser an exile in Holland, heaped the blame upon his unprotected head. Every one said the war board was right, that it was the Kaiser's mad ambition to stamp German Kultur upon a civilized world and by conquering it prove himself a greater military genius than Alexander, Hamilton, Caesar, Marlborough, Frederick the Great, Napoleon or Wellington. And the dream of a German Empire, embracing the entire civilized and semi-civilized world, ended when the Armistice in November, Nineteen Hundred Eighteen, brought about the debacle. It seems hardly credible that following so closely upon the heels of the peace conference at The Hague in which there was great rejoicing in the belief that war could I World War never again be declared between nations, accounted At Its highly civilized, there broke a conflict, cruel, diabolical, Climax fien(hsh, beyond human conception. At once every scientific mind seemed perverted and bent upon a determination to invent some horrible enginery or agency to maim and kill. Air planes dropped bombs on cities, on people and upon soldiers; machine guns, on land, tanks and hand gr...