By Gilbert K. Chesterton MCMXVI 1916

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DETAILED CONTENTS
CHAPTER I

SOME WORDS TO PROFESSOR WHIRLWIND

The German Professor, his need of Education
for Debate—Three Mistakes of German
Controversialists—The Multiplicity of
Excuses—Falsehood against Experience—
Kultur preached by Unkultur—The Mistake
about Bernard Shaw—German Lack of
Welt-Politik—Where England is really
Wrong.
CHAPTER II

THE PROTESTANT HERO

Suitable Finale for the German Emperor—Frederick
II. and the Power of
Fear—German Influence in England since
Lather—Our German Kings and Allies—
Triumph of Frederick the Great.
CHAPTER III

THE ENIGMA OF WATERLOO

How we helped Napoleon—The Revolution
and the Two Germanics—Religious
Resistance of Austria and Russia—Irreligious
Resistance of Prussia and England—Negative
Irreligion of England—its Idealism
in Snobbishness—Positive Irreligion of
Prussia; no Idealism in Anything—Allegory
and the French Revolution—The Dual
Personality of England; the Double Battle—Triumph
of Blucher.
CHAPTER IV

THE COMING OF THE JANISSARIES

The Sad Story of Lord Salisbury—Ireland
and Heligoland—The Young Men of
Ireland—The Dirty Work—The Use of
German Mercenaries—The Unholy Alliance—Triumph
of the German Mercenaries.
CHAPTER V

THE LOST ENGLAND

Truth about England and Ireland—Murder
and the Two Travellers—Real Defence
of England—The Lost Revolution—Story
of Cobbett and the Germans—Historical
Accuracy of Cobbett—Violence of the English
Language—Exaggerated Truths versus
Exaggerated Lies—Defeat of the People—Triumph
of the German Mercenaries.
CHAPTER VI

HAMLET AND THE DANES

Degeneration of Grimm's Fairy Tales—From
Tales of Terror to Tales of Terrorism—German
Mistake of being Deep—The
Germanisation of Shakespeare—Carlyle and
the Spoilt Child—The Test of Teutonism—
Hell or Hans Andersen—Causes of English
Inaction—Barbarism and Splendid Isolation—
The Peace of the Plutocrats—Hamlet
the Englishman—The Triumph of Bismarck.
CHAPTER VII

THE MIDNIGHT OF EUROPE

The Two Napoleons—Their Ultimate
Success—The Interlude of Sedan—The
Meaning of an Emperor—The Triumph of
Versailles—The True Innocence of England—
Triumph of the Kaiser.
CHAPTER VIII

THE WRONG HORSE

Lord Salisbury Again—The Influence of
1870—The Fairy Tale of Teutonism—The
Adoration of the Crescent—The Reign of
the Cynics—Last Words to Professor
Whirlwind.
CHAPTER IX

THE AWAKENING OF ENGLAND

The March of Montenegro—The Anti-Servile
State—The Prussian Preparation—The
Sleep of England—The Awakening of
England.
CHAPTER X

THE BATTLE OF THE MARNE

The Hour of Peril—The Human Deluge—The
English at the Marne.


CONTENTS

THE CRIMES OF ENGLAND

CHAPTER I. — Some Words to Professor Whirlwind

CHAPTER II. — The Protestant Hero

CHAPTER III. — The Enigma of Waterloo

CHAPTER IV. — The Coming of the Janissaries

CHAPTER V. — The Lost England

CHAPTER VI. — Hamlet and the Danes

CHAPTER VII. — The Midnight of Europe

CHAPTER VIII. — The Wrong Horse

CHAPTER IX. — The Awakening of England

CHAPTER X. — The Battle of the Marne

NOTE ON THE WORD "ENGLISH"


THE CRIMES OF ENGLAND


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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