Contents -- Truth And the Historian -- 1. The Lost Utopia -- 2. The Austrian Anomaly -- 3. The Europe of the Armed Camps -- 4. The "Encirclement" of Germany -- 5. The Bones of A Pomeranian Grenadier -- 6. The Third Man Falls Sick -- 7. The Breakdown of Europe -- A Note On The Bibliography -- Index -- Maps -- Austria-Hungary, 1871-1908 -- Ethnic Groups in Austria-Hungary, 1871-1908 -- Bismarck's Europe, about 1890 -- Germany Encircled, in 1914 -- Southeastern Europe, 1911 -- Southeastern Europe, 1914.