Italy and the War (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Italy and the War War reveals the nations as they are. It shows where they are strong; it pardons none of their weaknesses. It sheds a harsh light upon their national characteristics, their institutions and governments. The European struggle, by bringing the great Powers into mutual conflict, and by forcing even the smaller nations to take up a position or to choose a side, will at least have served to increase our knowledge of the human species. The present war provides us with the elements of a prodigious survey of experimental psychology and politics. Observations made of this or that country under such circumstances as the present are likely to lead to a much better knowledge of the absolute reality of things. In the case of Italy I believe we shall never have a better occasion of getting to know her. And at present, to tell the truth, we know very little of her. The old misunderstandings with France have vanished. Since the rupture of the Triple Alliance the two countries have lived in an atmosphere of unalloyed and unsuspicious sympathy. And the Italians, when they broke the Alliance, were not playing a part. Their action revealed the depths of the Italian heart. 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.