Nations go to war in a blare of trumpets and glory for high designs like defence of the smaller nation, democracy, and justice. Behind this rhetoric is the pain and anguish of slaughter, misery, starvation, and death so that rich men grow richer. Beyond Revanche exposes the grotesque injustice of a world war within which a small group of French policemen in the Deuxieme Bureau has to come to terms with the reality of destruction. Stretched to the limit they seek answers to the con...

The fact that governments lie is generally accepted today, but World War I was the first global conflict in which millions of young men were sacrificed for hidden causes. They did not die to save civilization; they were killed for profit and in the hopes of establishing a one-world government. By 1917, America had been thrust into the war by a President who promised to stay out of the conflict. But the real power behind the war consisted of the bankers, the financiers, and the politicians,...

Think you know about British history and the causes of the First World War? Think again. This fascinating and gripping study of events at the turn of the Twentieth Century is a remarkable insight into how political and social factors that we widely accept to be the causes of The Great War, were really just a construct put together by a very small, but powerful, political elite...'Thought-provoking . . . Docherty and Macgregor do not mince their wor...