Falsehood In War Time

Falsehood In War Time

Author: Arthur Ponsonby

Year: 1928

Contents: The Commitment to France; Serbia and the Murder of the Archduke; Invasion of Belgium as Cause of War; Germany's Sole Responsibility for the War; Passage of Russian Troops Through Great Britain; The Mutilated Nurse; The Criminal Kaiser; The Belgian Baby Without Hands; The Louvain Altar-Piece; The Contemptible Little Army; Deutschland Uber Alles; The Baby of Courbeck Loo; The Crucified Canadian; The Shooting of the Franzosling; Little Alf's Stamp Collection; The Tattooed Man; The Corpse Factory; The Bishop of Zanzibar's Letter; The German U-Boat Outrage; Constantinople; The Lusitania; Report of a Broken-Up Meeting; Atrocity Stories; Faked Photographs; The Doctoring of Official Papers; Hypocritical Indignation; Other Lies; The Manufacture of News; War Aims; And Foreign Lies-Germany, France, The United States and Italy. From the Introduction THE object of this volume is not to cast fresh blame on authorities and individuals, nor is it to expose one nation more than another to accusations of deceit. Falsehood is a recognized and extremely useful weapon in warfare, and every country uses it quite deliberately to deceive its own people, to attract neutrals, and to mislead the en