WHAT WOULD BE THE CHARACTER OF A NEW WAR? Enquiry Organised by the Inter-parliamentary Union, Geneva by Angell, Sir Norman, and others - 1933.

New York:: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, , 1933.. Hardcover first edition -. Good in cream cloth with red lettering (some light soiling to the covers, stamp on front endpaper, tear to lower edge of half title page, but a sturdily bound and clean copy). First US printing. Academic and military experts from the US, Japan and seven European countries including Sir Norman Angell (Great Britain), Major K. A. Bratt and Lieut. G. B. R. Sergel (Sweden), Francis Delaisi and Andre Mayer (France), G. Honoso (Japan) and more. Among the subjects covered were the changes in the methods of warfare, the production of weapons, aerial and chemical warfare, the effects of war on the population and on economics and finance. Significant because of its publication at a time when the world was heading inexorably to the next world war, but unfortunately a book whose lessons were mostly ignored. Biographical notes, xii, 420 pp.