A historical reference volume from J. N. Larned's series, offering topical summaries and excerpts from historians on world events and international affairs. It is useful for listeners seeking an organized overview of history rather than a continuous narrative.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
[Transcriber's notes. This work is derived from: https://archive.org/details/ historyforreadyr07larn To provide some "foresight" on the many international conflicts mentioned in this work, I suggest reading a review of World War I, which commences four years after the publication of this work. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I These modifications are intended to provide continuity of the text for ease of searching and reading. 1. To avoid breaks in the narrative, page numbers (shown in curly brackets "{1234}") are usually placed between paragraphs. In this case the page number is preceded and followed by an empty line. To remove page numbers use the Regular Expression: "^{[0-9]+}" to "" (empty string) 2. If a paragraph is exceptionally long, the page number is placed at the nearest sentence break on its own line, but without surrounding empty lines. 3. Blocks of unrelated text are moved to a
nearby break between subjects. 5. Use of em dashes and other means of space saving are replaced with spaces and newlines. 6. Subjects are arranged thusly: --------------------------------- MAIN SUBJECT TITLE IN UPPER CASE Subheading one. Subheading two. Subject text. See CROSS REFERENCE ONE. See Also CROSS REFERENCE TWO. John Smith, External Citation Title, Chapter 3, page 89.--------------------------------- Main titles are at the left margin, in all upper case (as in the original) and are preceded by an empty line. Subheadings (if any) are indented three spaces and immediately follow the main title. Text of the article (if any) follows the list of subtitles (if any) and is preceded with an empty line
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