Imagine the victors of this gigantic conflict--Allies or Teutons--impoverished in money and resources, with the most colossal public debt in the world's history hanging over them, but possessing an enormous army of trained veterans and a world-beating navy. Then, on this side of the Atlantic, a nation that thinks it "can whip all creation," and acts on that principle--a hundred million over-fed, money-making people, nine-tenths of whom could not load a modern infantry rifle if they should ever happen to see one; a country of countless dollars protected by obsolete battleships and submarines that can neither float nor sink; a nation rich but undefended, confident but weak, dictatorial in manner but powerless in action. America sits on an open powder barrel. Will the Victors of the Great War apply the match? Get this stirring and tremendous book, and read what will happen--in Mr. Maxim's own words. He will tell you where the match will be applied, what points in controversy will bring on the collision--and then what will take place with startling swiftness. And-- He tells what may be done, even at this late day, for effective defense. * * * * * As Mr. Maxim has cut out all royalty, publishers are thereby enabled to furnish a special edition of the book, of which this volume is a sample, at only fifty cents a copy. The book may be obtained of or ordered through any bookstore, or the publishers, Hearst's International Library Company, 119 West 40th Street, New York, will send it postage-paid to any address for sixty cents, or ten copies in a single package for five dollars--fifty cents a copy. The library edition, superior paper and binding, may still be had at two dollars a copy.