TY - BOOK AU - Angell,Norman TI - The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage AV - JX PY - 2012/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - War KW - Disarmament KW - Imperialism KW - War, Cost of KW - Commercial policy N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion; Release date is 2012-01-09; Produced by David Edwards and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive); Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Great Illusion" by Norman Angell is a book first published in 1909. Angell argues that modern war between industrial nations is economically futile because conquest brings no real gain. He contends that international economic interdependence makes armed conflict irrational and self-defeating. The book became a bestseller, spawning study groups and influencing military leaders. Yet World War I erupted just years later, leading many to dismiss Angell's ideas—though scholars later recognized the work as foundational to understanding international relations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38535 ER -