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The Scaremongers (RLE The First World War) The Advocacy of War and Rearmament 1896-1914
Prologue. Part 1: Making Friends and Choosing Enemies: The Diplomats 1. The Kaiser Sends a Telegram and Chirol is Aggrieved 2. The New Tenant at 66 Dorotheenstrasse 3. Leo maxse’s ABC of Better Relations with Russia 4. To League with the Shameless Hun 5. New Friends and Old Enemies 6. Einkreisungspolitik – Encirlclement Part 2: Alarums and Excursions: the Admirals and the Generals 7. Dies irae, dies illa 8. Is the Kaiser Coming for Tea? 9. Enter ‘the gorgeous Wrickington’ 10. A Discordant Band of Brothers 11. The Committee of Imperial Defence Investigates 12. Of Secrets, Spies and Saboteurs 13. Hysteria Navalis 14. The Sinking of Admiral Fisher Part 3: For National Security and Party Advantage: The Politicians 15. Naval Scaremongering: Garvin’s Election Cannon-Ball 16. Conscription, or How to Lose Friends and Votes Part 4: ‘And he gathered them in a place called …Armageddon’ 17. Collapse of the Triple Entente 18. A Domestic Interlude: Lord Northcliffe Asserts Himself 19. 1911: Annus Mirabilis 20. Priming the magazine 21. Military matters: Repington Fights Real and Imagined Foes 22. Over the Brink Epilogue.
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