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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. Some very foxing on page block not on page faces. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This book owes a primary debt to Mr Cecil Scott of The Macmillan Com- pany (New York) whose advice and encouragement and knowledge of the subject were an essential element and a firm support from beginning to end. I have also been fortunate in the critical collaboration of Mr Denning Miller who clarified many problems of writing and interpretation and made this a better book than it might otherwise have been. For his help I am permanently grateful. I should like to express my appreciation of the unsurpassed resources of the New York Public Library and at the same time a hope that some- how someday in my native city a way will be found to make the Library’s facilities for scholars match its incomparable material. My thanks go also to the New York Society Library for the continuing hospitality of its stacks and the haven of a place to write; to Mrs Agnes F. Peterson of the Hoover Library at Stanford for the loan of the Briey Proc?s-Verbaux and for run- ning to earth the answers to many queries; to the staff of the Biblioth?que de Documentation Internationale Contemporaine Paris for source mat- erial and to Mr Henry Sachs of the American Ordnance Association for technical advice and for supplementing my inadequate German. To the reader I must explain that the omission of Austria-Hungary Serbia and the Russo-Austrian and Serbo-Austrian fronts was not entirely arbitrary. The inexhaustible problem of the Balkans divides itself naturally from the rest of the war. Moreover operations on the Austrian front during the first thirty-one days were purely preliminary and did not reach a cli- max with effect on the war as a whole until the Battle of Lemberg against the Russians and the Battle of the Drina against the Serbs. These took place between September 8 and 17 outside my chronological limits. (MP)