Historical Backgrounds of the Great War; The War: Its Origins and Warnings
Frank James Adkins
Read by Ted Lienhart
Author Frank J. Adkins, a lecturer at Cambridge University, arranged a series of European history lectures at the beginning of World War I for war-related organizations in the Sheffield area. Adkins expanded those lectures into long essays for publication as a book in 1915. The essays examine several centuries of history of Germany, France, England, and the Slavs, and they show how these histories contributed to the conflict that broke out in 1914. - Summary by Ted Lienhart (7 hr 22 min)
Chapters
| Preface | 4:50 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
| Introduction | 27:57 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
| First Essay Germany. Part 1 | 27:33 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
| First Essay Germany. Part 2 | 25:59 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
| First Essay Germany. Part 3 | 27:18 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
| First Essay Germany. Part 4 | 18:01 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
| First Essay Germany. Part 5 | 27:48 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
| First Essay Germany. Part 6 | 32:15 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
| Second Essay France. Part 1 | 26:48 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
| Second Essay France. Part 2 | 27:52 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
| Second Essay France. Part 3 | 27:54 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
| Third Essay Slavs. Part 1 | 29:53 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
| Third Essay Slavs. Part 2 | 28:24 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
| Third Essay Slavs. Part 3 | 27:04 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
| Fourth Essay England. Part 1 | 27:31 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
| Fourth Essay England. Part 2 | 26:26 | Read by Ted Lienhart |
| Fourth Essay England. Part 3 | 28:42 | Read by Ted Lienhart |