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Arnold Toynbee''s A Study of History has been acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship. A ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations, it is a work of breath-taking breadth and vision. D.C. Somervell''s abridgement, in two volumes, of this magnificent enterprise, preserves the method, atmosphere, texture, and, in many instances, the very words of the original. Originally published in 1947 and 1957, these two volumes are themselves a great historical achievement. Volume 1, which abridges the first six volumes of Toynbee''s study, includes the Introduction, The Geneses of Civilizations, and The Disintegrations of Civilizations. Volume 2, an abridgement of Volumes VII-X, includes sections on Universal States, Universal churches, Heroic Ages, Contacts Between Civilizations in Space, Contacts Between Civilizations in Time, Law and Freedom in History, The Prospects of the Western Civilization, and the Conclusion. Of Somervell''s work, Toynbee wrote, "The reader now has at his command a uniform abridgement of the whole book, made by a clear mind that has not only mastered the contents but has entered into the writer''s outlook and purpose."

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Published by the Allies'' most respected historians on the eve of World War I, this book served as a backgrounder on one of Europe''s key trouble spots. Still a superb overview of a region which remains unsettled to this day.This masterfully crafted eBook faithfully preserves the 1916 revised second edition. It is fully-searchable and fully-printable. (254pp, 1.87 Mb)

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In The German Terror in France Mr. Arnold J. Toynbee gives us the continuation of The German Terror in Belgium. Mr. Toynbee is an admirable and judicial compiler of evidence, and the numerous photographic illustrations here reproduced help to make more real this terrible indictment, this nightmare of German methods in warfare. Mr. Toynbee''s volume begins with the German advance "from Liége to the Marne." We are told that " the massacres at Aerschot, the bombardment of Malines, the devastation of the villages between Malines and Louvain, and the sack of the city of Louvain itself, were all directly connected " with the advance on Antwerp, and " have made it notorious above all other German operations in the European War." But the advance on Antwerp was a subsidiary diversion to cover the tremendous and incredibly swift advance into France which was thrown back at the Marne. The outrages committed by the main armies "in their passage probably amounted to a greater sum of crime and suffering than the horrors concentrated between the Belgian frontier and Liége, or between the Démer and the Loire.It is useless here to describe the details of this dreadful narrative in which we see the Blonde Beast sacrificing human beings of all ages to all fates, robbing, pillaging, and doing unspeakable things, and things so filthy that it is difficult to understand how such ideas could exist.

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Excerpts from the Preface:"The subject of this book is the treatment of the civil population in the countries overrun by the German Armies during the first three months of the European War. The form of it is a connected narrative, based on the published documents and reproducing them by direct quotation or (for the sake of brevity) by reference."With the documents now published on both sides it is at last possible to present a clear narrative of what actually happened. The co-ordination of this mass of evidence, which has gradually accumulated since the first days of invasion, is the principal purpose for which the book has been written."