"No book we have read for years has so interested and delighted us.... He proceeds to argue, and to prove, that conquests do not enrich the conqueror under modern conditions of life.... The style in which the book is written--sincere, transparent, simple, and now and then charged with fine touches of ironic humour--make it very easy to read." ="Economic Review" (London).= "Civilization will some day acknowledge a deep debt of gratitude to Mr. Norman Angell for the bold and searching criticism of the fundamental assumptions of modern diplomacy contained in his remarkable book.... He has laid his fingers upon some very vital facts, to which even educated opinion has hitherto been blind." ="Journal des Economistes."= "Son livre sera beaucoup lu, car il est aussi agréable que profond, et il donnera beaucoup à réfléchir." ="Export" (Organ des Centralvereins für Handelsgeographie).= "By reason of its statement of the case against war in terms of practical politics and commercial advantage (=Real-und Handelspolitikers=), the keenness and the mercilessness of the logic by which the author explodes the errors and the illusions of the war phantasists ... the sense of reality, the force with which he settles accounts point by point with the militarists, this book stands alone. It is unique." ="The Western Mail."= "A novel, bold, and startling theory." MILITARY OPINION. ="Army and Navy Journal" (N.Y.), October 5, 1910.= "If all anti-militarists could argue for their cause with the candour and fairness of Norman Angell we should welcome them, not with 'bloody hands to hospitable graves,' but to a warm and cheery intellectual comradeship. Mr. Angell has packed away in his book more common sense than peace societies have given birth to in all the years of their existence...." ="United Service Magazine" (London), May, 1911.=