[ The Earl of Denbigh on the First World War. ] Printed pamphlet titled 'Why Germany Made War'; with printed handbill of 'Points to Remember' ('What Germany Wants'), carrying full-page coloured map.

Author: 
Col. The Earl of Denbigh, C.V.O., A.D.C. [ Rudolph Robert Basil Aloysius Augustine Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh, 8th Earl of Desmond (1859-1939) ]
Publication details: 
PAMPHLET: No. 2 in 'German Aims Series.' Distributed by W. H. Smith & Son, London: John Menzies & Co., Ltd, Edinburgh. Printed by Darling & Son, Ltd., London. HANDBILL: printed by R. Clay and Sons, Ltd, London and Suffolk; undated.
£65.00
SKU: 18064

Both items in good condition, on lightly aged paper. PAMPHLET: 23pp., thin 12mo (15 x 7.5 cm.). Stapled; in blue printed wraps, with two 15 x 16.5 cm. fold-outs carrying four maps. Headings indicate the general purport: 'Trade not the Real Issue', 'America's Motive', 'How the War Began', 'German Designs Mapped Out', 'The Invasion of 1914', 'German Designs in the East', 'Hamburg to Aleppo', 'Water Communications', 'Our Mediterranean Interests', 'Germany's Schemes in Africa', 'Some Prussian History', 'Germany's Industrial Progress', 'The Mittel-Europa Scheme', 'If the Germans Took England', 'The Real Rulers of Germany', 'What the Kaiser wanted', 'Designs on the Atlantic Routes', 'The Attack on Serbia', 'Germany's Insistence on War', 'The Position To-day', 'We must Stick it out'. It is interesting to see Denbigh acknowledging, early in 1918, 'the massacres of Armenians by Turks to get rid of a non-Mussulman nation' (p.15). HANDBILL: 28 x 22 cm. Text on one side, headed 'Why Germany went to War | Points to remember | By the Earl of Denbigh'. There are thirteen points, ranging from Germany's 'aggressive militarism' and the fact that it is 'intensely jealous of England and the British Empire', to 'German inland waterways', and its schemes regarding 'Mittel Europa' and 'Central Africa'. On the reverse is the coloured 'Map showing the German schemes of Central Europe & Central Africa', headed by 'Pin this Up in Your Home | What Germany Wants'. No copy of the handbill on OCLC WorldCat, and only one copy on COPAC (at the National Library of Wales); seven copies of the pamphlet on COPAC.